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?
MY Family Footprint >
Family Footprint
To me, home sustainability looks like working with the resources and availability you have to reduce your footprint. This can range from unplugging your phone charger when you are not using it, composting, switching the lights off, recycling, walking, biking or taking pub. transportation rather than driving, growing your own food (whether it is a garden or something as small as herbs) to possibly eating plant based more often, buying locally, installing solar panels, switching your lights to LEDs or buying an electric car. Simply the act of being aware of your (and your households) impact is beneficial. In a dream world without injustices, or limited access to resources, home sustainability would work in harmony with the environment. Houses would be powered by solar, wind or water energy, food would come from sustainable regenerative farms, transportation would be electric, Household items would be plastic free and recyclable, and composting bins would be accessible (ie. The city of San Fransisco has compost bins where you put your food waste and it is taken to a composting plant and turned back into soil!!). With this being said, many communities in the US face systemic injustices which need to be overcome in order to make advancements in the sustainability sector of communities and neighborhoods in the United States.





