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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A Sustainable Home
If I had my own home in the future, there are many possible ways that I could make the house more energy efficient. I would most likely take aspects of sustainability that I use in my house today and incorporate these things and new ways to make my home sustainable. Some aspects of my home that I would include in a sustainable house would include: composting, recycling, and having a garden in my backyard. Some things that I would add to my future house to make it more sustainable would be: adding solar panels, putting energy efficient appliances throughout my house, and finally I would buy an energy efficient car.