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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Meal Planning
There are many things we all could be doing to decrease our footprint. I have learned that my family has an above average footprint from household food waste and we need to try decrease it to help the environment. A solution I have read about is that we could start to meal plan. While this seems like a small thing that won't help much, decreasing the amount of food wasted can help immensely. By buying only the food needed, it decreases the amount of food being thrown away because of it going bad. Therefore, if less waste is being made then less trash bags are being filled and thrown away. Also, if you do end up buying too much food, another way to help the environment would be freezing excess food and using leftovers instead of making new meals. Even something as small as meal planning can help decrease our carbon footprints.