conservation post 8-21-13

After the all of the activities, projects, and the field trip to Hpower and the recycling place, my knowledge of conservation, along with the new found importance of it, has taught me to look from both side of the argument. Some want to burn our trash and use it as an alternative to coal and oil, while others, while others want to reuse the recyclable material inside of the trash and compress it so that it can be shipped to places or transported. Even though both techniques are very different, both are trying to help not only people, but also the environment. After visiting both places, whenever i would think about conservation, I would automatically think back to both Hpower and the recycling facility. Both are doing exactly what everyone else should be doing. Even if it is just remembering to recycle, or just to take shorter showers, it would have the exact same effect as both the Hpower and recycling facilities. Both were started by someone just like you and me, but they felt their passion to find new ways of tending to the peoples needs in a cleaner, more efficient way needed to not only be used on themselves, but on the whole state.

Hpower and the recycling facilities both were good ways of using conservation to the maximum level. But, don't let that think you can just slack off and not worry about recycling or littering. Conservation is a group effort. Without everyones contribution, we will never be able to effectively conserve our resources. Just as  Ghandi said, there is only enough for the needy, not the greedy. A definition of this in a nutshell would be that we all have to do our part in not using more than we need, and to not be lazy. If everyone just used or ate what they needed, the world would be much better. However, most of the world is now turning into greedy, unfair people. This is what Ghandi was trying to warn us about. Man was never meant to be greedy. We brought the greed upon ourselves.