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 Family Footprint
If I had my own home I would try to make environmentally friendly improvements. I would try to get most, if not all of my electricity from solar panels. If I lived in a windy area I would consider getting a small wind turbine. I would also consider getting a hybrid car. I would like to live in the country, but I would like to work from home part of the time, so that would save some traveling to work and back. I would try to get organic food from a local grocery store and possibly grow some of my own food. I would make only as much food as I will eat and if I made more than I would eat for a meal I will save it for a later meal. I would start a compost pile so I wouldn't be throwing away as many food scraps and other compostable material. These are just a few things I could do to be more environmentally friendly.