Consumption, resources, and the environment: What you need to know.

  Consumption, resources, and the environment: What you need to know. Just how “renewable” is renewable energy? Using fewer fossil fuels and moving to cleaner, more “green” energy sources is a good idea, right? Well on the outside it does seem great it just is not that simple, and though it is definitely the right idea this post should help to inform you of potential drawbacks to these forms of energy that may not be intuitively clear. When thinking about renewable energy one of the first things that comes to mind is solar panels. I mean there is plenty of solar energy to go around, so why don’t we have more solar panels? This is when utilizing life cycle assessments can really come in handy as an LCA determines the “cradle to grave” impacts of a product, in other words they quantify the impacts a product has on the environment from the extraction of the materials to create the product all the way to the products disposal or end of life. Although currently according to an LCA done in S