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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Home Grown Food and Composting Scraps
I have very big backyard and a lot of space for plants and animals. So, my parents and I plant a lot of things inn my backyard. We have lemons, blackberries, avocados, plums, peaches, apricots, pomegranates, grapefruit, figs, persimmons, and apples trees. Regardless if we pant other crops, we have a good supply of fruit that we don't have to waste money on every year. Although every year we do plant things like tomatoes, garlic, onions, and kale. The garlic we don't have to replant every year because it will leave behind a few cloves causing it to regrow every year. In addition to our home grown food, we have chickens. Not only do we get delicious eggs, but their poop is great fertilizer and they eat leftover scraps. My mom has taught me the importance of leftover food so sometimes we plant it and other times we compost it. This link https://blog.epa.gov/2016/08/11/a-city-of-chickens/ describes how beneficial it can be to have chickens at home.