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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Upon discovering how high my carbon footprint was, I began to look at what raised it and discovered that a large part of it was the fact that my house is heated for half the year. Unfortunately, I do not know what to do about it, other than putting on more sweaters and heating less. Does anyone else have any suggestions?
One suggestion would be keeping the house at a lower temperature. By dropping the temperature by a few degrees can lower your carbon footprint quite a bit! It doesn’t have to be during the day either. Turning down the thermostat at night is something many families do, but you might need some more blankets during the cold months.