Do you ever ponder the occurrence of the planet’s resources expiring? There are tons of people on earth and we all continue to use up resources that are not able to be regenerated. People discuss the word “sustainable design" and the word “green". Can “greenness" resuscitate the world?

Planet resuscitation begins with sustainable design with can be discussed in easy-to-understand terms. 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 like oil do not regenerate, but renewable resources like timber are able to regenerate themselves…usually. In the design of the tools that keep the world running, preserving resources should be our goal, which means we need to design our tools in such a way that will sustain them.

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 anything in your home that you can. 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. 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. 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.