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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Comparing to other countries
After I looked at some of the other schools, in other countries, I realized our Carbon footprint here in the United States is extremely high. I think we could do a better job of determining what we are doing with that high of a carbon footprint, do we need to keep lights on in the house all of the time, do we need to eat a lot of meat, or take long showers, or drive everywhere we go on a gas powered car. There are a lot of things we can try to change in our daily lives to reduce this carbon footprint, especially here in the US.