… or very silly if you think about it. One of the blogs over at EcoFriendlyDaily.com recommends “Creating a Tree-Free Home.” “Tree-free” did not turn out to be as onerous as I thought it would be: “Tree-free means reducing or eliminating paper products in the house. There are a million places we use paper everyday,Continue reading “Tree-Free Living is not a Good Idea”
Tag Archives: Environmentalism
Toilet Paper, Hummers, and Global Warming, oh my!
Peg Fong from the EcoGeek blog asks “Which is worse? Hummers or toilet paper?” She cites a February 25, 2009 New York Times article, Mr. Whipple Left It Out: Soft Is Rough on Forests. According to the Times’ article, “[F]luffiness comes at a price: millions of trees harvested in North America and in Latin AmericanContinue reading “Toilet Paper, Hummers, and Global Warming, oh my!”
Wood Energy?
Interesting 60-Second Science about how the “Old Energy Source Wood Be New Alternative.” The money quote: “If chopping down forests for fuel doesn’t sound like the greenest solution to our energy needs, the scientists note that we’d have to figure out how to manage our woodsheds sustainably, to avoid slashing and burning our way toContinue reading “Wood Energy?”
Timber’s term of the Week: Green Chain
Green Chain n The assembly line where (primarily) men pull green lumber off the conveyor and stack into piles for drying. Each puller will have a given size and quality assigned to him for removal from the green chain. The work is physically demanding because green lumber weighs much more than the dried version. AccordingContinue reading “Timber’s term of the Week: Green Chain”
Timber's term of the Week: Green Chain
Green Chain n The assembly line where (primarily) men pull green lumber off the conveyor and stack into piles for drying. Each puller will have a given size and quality assigned to him for removal from the green chain. The work is physically demanding because green lumber weighs much more than the dried version. AccordingContinue reading “Timber's term of the Week: Green Chain”
Barkophile
People have used the properties of wood for music for plenty of millennia: percussion, acoustic, wind. Now electronic has merged with organic. Joel Scilley, the owner of Audiowood has a goal “to sell products with eco-credentials including low-power and efficient amplifiers, and products made from sustainable and recycled materials.” The turntables “usually use the OriginContinue reading “Barkophile”
Ten Million
That’s the number of jobs the United Nations’ Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) said that investing in sustainable forest management could create worldwide. According to a recent study by the International Labour Organization, unemployment worldwide could increase from 179 million in 2007 to 198 million in 2009, it could go as high as 230 million.Continue reading “Ten Million”
Timber’s Term of the Week: Busheler
Busheler n A pieceworker paid at a rate per thousand board feet. Now a bushel is an outmoded unit of grain equal to four pecks or thirty-two dry quarts. It’s measured in a cylindrical vessel, eighteen and a half inches in diameter, and eight inches deep. According to one source the term bushel dates backContinue reading “Timber’s Term of the Week: Busheler”
Timber's Term of the Week: Busheler
Busheler n A pieceworker paid at a rate per thousand board feet. Now a bushel is an outmoded unit of grain equal to four pecks or thirty-two dry quarts. It’s measured in a cylindrical vessel, eighteen and a half inches in diameter, and eight inches deep. According to one source the term bushel dates backContinue reading “Timber's Term of the Week: Busheler”
If it's not grown, it has to be mined.
It pains us to cut trees for their wood. One recommended technique for escaping the pain of cutting down trees for paper is to substitute electronics. The technique reminds me of a comedy I watched. As I remember it, in an opening scene, a wounded tough-as-nails soldier breaks his own finger to take his mindContinue reading “If it's not grown, it has to be mined.”
Nullius in Verba 