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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My Carbon Footprint
I was interested in compiling information about my life to discover my carbon footprint. After going through this process I discovered that my home and food carbon outputs were right around the average for my area. However, I noticed that my purchases were much lower than the average in my area and my transportation was much much higher. I spend a lot of time during the day in a vehicle. I carpool quite often and take public transit to school. I think the reason my transportation output was so high this past year was because of the many flights I've taken. Over the summer I went on 4 flights while on vacation and over winter break I took 2 flights. According to carbonindependant.org the average Boeing 737 puts out about 90kg of CO2 per hour. I took several 10-hour flights along with multiple 4-6 hour flights. This immense amount of flying time is probably the reason my CO2 output is so high. This year it is likely I will take only a third of the number of flights a took this past year therefore drastically reducing my output to a more normal level.
thats cool-J.B.