Many students using our footprint calculator said that they could not pledge to reduce their home footprints because they were not making the decisions for the household. Here is your chance to design your own sustainable virtual household!
If you had your own home, what would you do to make it more energy efficient? Where would you get your electricity from? Where would your house be? Would you live near to your school or work or local transit options? Where would you get your food from?
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To make my home more energy efficient I would think about the little everyday things we could do around the house. I would make sure everything is only plugged in when it needs to be charged and not left on overnight. I would put solar panales on top of my house so we use natural energy that won't affect the environment. My house would be a small house with only enough bedrooms for the family that will be located in a central point between all of our activities we do throughout the day. Mostly using city transportation or carpooling would be the first way to get somewhere but we would still have a chargeable car for longer trips. I would try to source locally grown food at farmers markets and also buy lots of food in bulk to conserve individual packaging. I would live my life and think about all the little day to day task I could do to better the environment I live in.