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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Family Footprint
In my house, I would ensure that my family and I don't have the lights turn on unless we absolutely need to. I would also ask everyone to unplug any unnecessary plugs so that we aren't using that much electricity within the house. I think I would like to grow some fruits and vegetables in my backyard in order to be able to grow our own food and not have to depend on large produce companies since they can have a negative effect on our environment. I would also try to limit the amount of meat that is consumed by my family so that we don't have such a high carbon footprint since meat production is one of the biggest contributors to greenhouse gas emissions.