Green is in. Sustainable Design Is In
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by: cavinleejacobs
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| Do you ever ponder the occurrence of the planets resources expiring? There are tons of people on earth and we all continue to use up resources that are not able to be regenerated. Maybe youve heard the term "sustainable design", or maybe youve heard people throw around the term, "green". Can "greenness" resuscitate the world? Saving the planet starts with sustainable design, which is actually a pretty simple term. During the production of the means that basically allow our world to function, people manipulate resources. The resources are either renewable or non-renewable, meaning either they regenerate themselves, or they dont. Non-renewable resources like oil do not regenerate, but renewable resources like timber are able to regenerate themselves…usually. When we design the tools to run our world, sustaining resources, or maintaining them, should be our goal; hence "sustainable design". An easy initiative that you can take as an individual to sustain resources is reducing, reusing, and recycling. Lessen your consumption of products made using non-renewable resources. Use the things you already have over and over; dont throw away things like waterbottles and then go out and buy new ones! Recycle whenever possible in your home. Allow recycling to be a mission and get the whole family involved, including kids and teens. Kids love to sort and keep any refunds you may get back, while teens look for any excuse to drive-even to the transfer station! The concepts mentioned that you can use in your own home to promote greenness can also be used globally. If on a global level, countries spent more time reducing the amount of non-renewable resources they used, reusing what they already have, and recycling on a national level, the amount of resources available versus the amount of resources used would begin to fall into equilibrium. Having balance is extremely important. So, I guess the moral of this story is to use non-renewable resources in moderation. You cant swoop in and save the world alone, but without designs aimed at sustaining resources on an individual level, we will never get to it on a national or global scale. |
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