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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I would say something my family should work on is transportation. Our carbon footprint is pretty high and we spend a lot of time in the car. Its hard to reduce our footprint since we have to go in the car to go to sports, work, food shopping, get things we need, and more. Some solutions would be to carpool more often then we normally do. Another idea is to wait and see if we actually need something before going out to get it. Before we use the car we should think about if we really need to or can we walk somewhere or just skip the trip all together.