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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How Flight Travel Could Become More Sustainable
Flight travel is one of the leading causes of carbon emissions. In my family's carbon footprint, flight travel accounted for over half of our overall footprint. One way that the carbon footprint of flight travel could be decreased are through flight rationing, where each person has a maximum set for how many kilometers they can travel in a year. This would lead to a decrease in flights taken, which would obviously lower the impact of flights on carbon emission. Another way that flights could become more sustainable is by evolving the current fuel based airplanes into electric airplanes. If planes were electric they could possibly create no carbon footprint at all. The planes energy could come from solar panels or any other electric source, which would overall be more environmentally sustainable than the fossil fuels currently used. In the end, while it would be difficult, there are a couple ways that flight travel could be made more sustainable.