Sustainable design concepts are here to stay

Have you ever wondered what will happen when the world runs out of resources? I mean, there are so many people in this world and we continue to use more and more “stuff” that won’t come back once we use it all up. Maybe you’ve heard the term “sustainable design”, or maybe you’ve 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. When people design the tools that run our world, they use resources. The resources are either renewable or non-renewable, meaning either they regenerate themselves, or they don’t. Non-renewable resources, such as petroleum or natural gas, are totally gone once we use them up, whereas renewable resources, such as trees, will grow back (although we may cut them faster than they can grow, but that’s another story for another day!). 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. Reduce your consumption of products made using non-renewable resources. Reuse things that you already have (for example, don’t go out and buy more bottled water-get a water-filter and keep refilling!). Recycle anything in your home that you can. Make recycling a family project and get kids and teens involved. The younger children would love to keep five cent refunds, and teens will love the responsibility of driving to the transfer station!
Everything mentioned above should be used not only on a local level, but on a global level. We need to focus on reducing our consumption of non-renewable resources on a national level, reusing what we already have, as well as recycling on a national level which will cause a balance between resources we have available and resources we use. Equilibrium is key.
So, I guess the moral of this story is to use non-renewable resources in moderation. One person cannot complete this task alone, however, you can promote maintaining resource on a local level in order for it to work its way up to a national and global level.

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For more info on sustainable design, read Aia.org.

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