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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Non-vegan Intake in Relation to Carbon Emission.
On average, an American will consume 222 pounds of meat each year, and the average family will consume 888 pounds. Due to this, large amounts of gas emissions are being tossed into our atmosphere. Meat and dairy production in agriculture is one of the most impactful aspects in an overwhelming amount of carbon emissions. According to "INDEPENDENT", if we were to eliminate dairy or meat from our diets as a whole, we could reduce our carbon footprint by almost 75%. One does not even need to become vegan to reduce our carbon footprint. If we were to just be mindful of the amount of dairy or meat we consume, we could all reduce our negative impact on our atmosphere.
These statistics are a lot higher then I expected, I agree that it's important to lower our emissions and be mindful of the impact our dairy and meat consumption has on the environment.