Sustainable design concepts are here to stay

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by: Elise.Fendmeyer
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Have you ever wondered what will happen when the world runs out of resources? There are tons of people on earth and we all continue to use up resources that are not able to be regenerated. 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. These resources can be placed into one of two categories: renewable meaning that they are able to redevelop, or non-renewable, meaning that they can’t. 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”.
One of the easiest ways to sustain resources in our own lives is the old “reduce, reuse, recycle” routine. Reduce your consumption of products made using non-renewable resources. Use the things you already have over and over; don’t 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. 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.
I suppose the significance of all of this lies in the fact that the world must use non-renewable resource temperately. You can’t 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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