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Go Green Day1: Renewable or Sustainable?

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Exploring the Go Green Movement

What fun to join others on Active Rain in a 30 day challenge to blog each day, to improve our skills and learn more about how we can help others. I've been researching and writing about ... going green, so I decided it would be fun to see what happens when I blog about a single topic for 30 days.

Going Green

Renewable - are those resources that can be replenished using renewable processes. The process of growing corn is renewable because you can grow a crop, harvest it and grow another crop in the same place. Mining coal or drilling for oil are not renewable processes, as they can't be repeated.

Sustainable –are things you can keep doing for a long time, like decades, generations and century after century. Examples of sustainable resources are solar panels on the roof of a home and wind turbines. No matter how much we capture today, we won't affect how much is available tomorrow. Sustainable processes can't use non-renewable resources like fossil fuel, water or the mineral rich top-soil needed to grow crops.

This organic garden is renewable, not sustainable, as it is using water and some of the natural chemicals in the top soil.

 

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Comments (2)

Sharon Tara
Sharon Tara Transformations - Portsmouth, NH
Retired New Hampshire Home Stager

I'm impressed...not only are you doing the challenge, but you are limiting yourself to one subject!  I'm hoping to be able to come up with posts on any subject, LOL!

Aug 26, 2010 09:17 AM
Tina Gleisner
Home Tips for Women - Portsmouth, NH
Home Tips for Women

Hi Sharon, I've written a few articles on green and there's a lot more info out there. My original idea, and we'll see how it goes ... is to explore all the different green phrases that are popping up to see what really makes sense as right now it's more clutter, marketing hype, etc

Good luck with your posts

Aug 26, 2010 09:51 AM