Dec 8, 2019
Mindful Mondays - Sustainable Development Goals - Natural Resources
Today it is the objective 12.2: achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources.
How can we, as a business owner integrate better practice in our business to achieve sustainable management and efficient use of natural resources?
What is a natural resource? A natural resource is what we, people, can use which comes from the natural environment. Examples of natural resources are air, water, wind, wood, fossil fuels, natural gas, iron, coal... Some of these resources are renewable, which means that Mother nature knows how to make it available again, some of these resources are not renewable, which means that once it is used, it is no longer available.
We are mainly users of these resources, so there’s little we can do about how these resources are managed. What we can do instead is to become more efficient users by choosing whenever it’s possible, the resource that is renewable and by being mindful of how the use of natural resources affects the quality of lif…