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?
MY Family Footprint >
My Family Foot print
My family footprint was high. I didn't know that two people living in a house could produce so much Co2. My highest was the home energy due to the wallflowers that I have plugged in my house to make it smell good causes my footprint to be 6,806kg. Also, the electronics I have in the house that we use take a toll on it as well. This article can give you ideas on how to reduce your carbon footprint and make you think outside the box. The article talks about turning down your water heater. I didn't know you could even do that.
https://www.nytimes.com/guides/year-of- … -footprint
As shown by myself, the sheer size of your house will have its own effect as well as it determines a lot of the practices that people will partake in. My home footprint was ridiculously high and my guess would be that it's exponentially grown due to house size and number of people.