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 Footprint
My family footprint has a lot of carbon in it. We are a big impact of the carbon footprint. We do not have a place that recycles so we have to throw everything a way. We travel a lot, we drive cars everyday.
In my personal experience, not everyone can afford energy efficient options. Solar panels, electric cars, personal methods of compost, etc are very expensive. And beyond expenses, it can be harder to encourage more than just yourself to participate in helping to reduce global warming. My suggestion is to return to Google. Google places that will accept recycling in your area, and if it at all helps, placing your family can travel via car instead of plane. And even beyond that, try to think about ways to reduce your person carbon emissions in ways separate from your family.