Wednesday, March 11, 2015

The Benefits Of Sustainable Living For Seniors

By Lena Stephenson


One of the hottest topics today is sustainable living. It cannot be denied that a lot of individuals have heard about this. However, majority of them are not sure what it really means. Aside from living a lifestyle that causes the least amount of environmental destruction for future generations to deal with, it also means using as few resources as they possibly can. Since the concept is applicable to almost every aspect of daily life, it comes in a lot of different forms.

Sustainable housing are often built in a manner that these only use a little amount of nonrenewable resources, cause no or minor damage to the surroundings and where too much energy is not necessary. The materials to be used should be coming from the environment, but it should not affect the environment in a negative way like those used for sustainable living for seniors.

Just like a shelter may be created using adobe, straw bales, brick or reclaimed stones. Many home owners have low energy in their shelters. This is one efficient way for them to follow such type of lifestyle. Furthermore, they produce their own power at the same time from the sun or wind or by making certain that there is high energy efficiency inside their shelter.

Reliance on sustainable energy is included in such this kind of lifestyle. The energy sources used should not be limited in quantity and should be renewable. It is not advisable to use energy sources such as fossil fuels because these are not renewable. The use of renewable energy sources such as geothermal energy, water, wind or solar should be done instead.

Energy should be captured as well as should be utilized without the necessity to ruin the environment. It is the aim of such lifestyle to teach people to consider the impact of their actions to the environment. Diets as well as foods involved in such lifestyle include those that can be found at the bottom of the food chain. Vegetarians usually focus on consuming mixed vegetables.

What makes this ideal is that it will only be necessary to produce a few resources. Not to mention, doing so will reduce environmental damage including degradation. Foods should be grown but not by using chemicals including herbicides or even pesticides, because it is more appropriate to grow them in an organic way. As a result, we can avoid health issues for other animals or humans and environment deterioration.

It is possible to reduce the problems due to long distance transporting of food and this can be done by consuming the locally grown ones. Many people exert effort to grow their very own produce either in their own yard or in a community nursery nearby. One other excellent source of locally grown fruits as well as vegetables are local farmers markets.

This kind of lifestyle simply means using as few Earth resources as possible. Individuals will succeed if they will leave the environment untouched and use very few resources. This is for the benefit of the future generations, for them to enjoy the same quality of life that individuals do today.




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