We are born burden of the world. (May be that’s why God said we are all born sinners) You can live your life as a big burden or a little burden. Turn on every light in the house or just enough to do your tasks. Take a 30 minutes shower or just 5. Buy a new cell phone every 6 months or 36. Use 2 Styrofoam cup a day or 1 ceramic cup in 2 year. Trash your recyclable or recycle your trash. The list goes on and on. The choices are there for you to make and the result would be you being a big burden or a just a little. So when we reduce that burden to a manageable level, we call it sustainable where we can co-exist with the environment. It is like fishing for food without over fishing. Cutting a few trees to built a home without deforestation. Cool the buildings without depleting the ozone. Getting to places faster without CO2 pollution. Leave no mark is ideal but may be leave fewer trace is more realistic.
With all this marketing about being green, sustainable, environmental, etc. But don’t be fool. There is no way construction can make the natural environment better. In some sense, the green movement is simply making construction to do “lesser harm” to the environment. Construction is a big burden to the environment from inception to construction to demolition. How do we lessen the burden? How do we leave a smaller footprint?
