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 can make the environment healthier by using solar panels
yess I totally agree.
i do agree with using more solar panels. it would be better if you gave an example of where u can use them. and how will they make the environment more healthy?
Well yes we've known that for a while and the small effects are great and its all most of us can do for now. The pure positive effects that each person powering that's powering their homes and vehicles off of clean energy is causing on the world is astronomically better than what most of us are stuck doing, because most of us cant afford those things.
Using solar panels and other forms of sustainable energy sources such as wind and water would be great. There are, however a few problems. Implementation of solar panels and windmills would cost a huge amount of money and time. The problem is that we don’t have these resources available to us. The cost is too expensive and we don’t have enough time. The prediction is that even if we stopped all carbon emissions today, there would still be enough carbon in the atmosphere to cause the atmospheric temperature raised from the natural amount to be 2° by 2030-36. These conditions would be insane. Most areas would flood due to ocean levels rising and there would be forest fires absolutely everywhere. While solar panels and other thing such as that would be an amazing thing to embrace, there is simply not enough time for it to cause a difference.