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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Reducing our footprint regarding transportation in the US
With a lacking public transportation infostructure in the US it is extremely hard to go anywhere without a car. This makes it extremely hard for even my own family to drive to sporting events or even work without emitting mass amounts of CO2, although the US does have one advantage regarding sustainable transportation. In the US we are lucky to be the pioneers in charging infostructure simply due to companies like Tesla. In contrast to other countries, in the US it is much easier to find a charging stations making electric cars much more practical. Personally I think for my family the only way to really reduce our footprint based on transportation is by going electric as our public transportation just is not available. I think as battery technology progresses more and more families will be switching to EV’s in the US, reducing our overall carbon footprint.