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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If I had my own home, I would make sure it would be the most economically friendly house ever! I would make sure to install solar panels on the roof to help with the amount of electricity used in our house to source many things such as outlets, lightbulbs, and more. I would also make sure to use high-efficiency toilets, washing machines, sprinklers, and dishwashers. I would grow my own food in the back yard to help eliminate all the transportation costs and fuel from buying food from stores or online. If I had my own home, I would recycle all of my waste and compost the food scraps. I would also make sure to have blinds during the summer because that would keep a lot of sun out which would reduce the heat in the house so you wouldn't need to turn on your AC for as long or much. I would also us a "Collected rainwater" system which is ideal for watering your garden and conserving water all at the same time. Two other things that could really make a difference are choosing well-rated energy saving appliances and picking the right washing machine that helps the environment b ecause they use less power than others.
https://www.choice.com.au/home-improvem … energy-use
I agree with this. I always think about how when I am older I want to make a difference with the how I go about my daily life. However, I have been thinking about this for a while and I realize that it isn't as easy as just saying it. Making all these changes in your life when you are older, and especially when you don't have much money and are trying to start your new life is hard. This sounds like exactly how I want to live and how I want to effect my environment positively and how I want everyone to live in the future but it will take a lot of work. I hope that when you get older you follow through with this wish and start making a difference one person at a time. : )





