Unit 1
Consumption, resources, and the environment: What you need to know Hello friends, family, and random people on the internet, and welcome to my blog! If you're thinking, Have I stumbled back into 2012? don't worry, this isn't a blog about Avril Lavigne or my travels to Disney World. This blog is a space for you to learn, think, and converse about the resources that we humans use and the impacts that the production and consumption of those resources have on our precious earth. Now, before we can get into this discussion, you're going to want to know what sort of resources we're dealing with. First of all, we're talking about natural resources; that's the stuff that's naturally occurring in the environment, like coal, wood and water. There are two main types of natural resources, renewable and nonrenewable . Renewable resources are the ones that grow again fairly quickly-- like, within our lifetime-- or never run out, like corn that we can replant on t...