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Threat posed by declining US hardwood forest utilisation
Posted auteur Rupert Oliver in Environment on 17th August 2010
One of the most startling observations in the newly published UNECE/FAO annual review of international wood markets is that “sawn hardwood production in North America has been declining for a decade".
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Common sense prevails in new EU illegal logging law
Posted auteur David Venables in Environment on 13th July 2010
I am always apprehensive when it comes to the regulation of business practice, especially at European level. But this time it appears common sense has prevailed. The European Commission's proposed "illegal logging...
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Green by association or 'green' marketing - fact or fiction
Posted auteur David Venables in Comment, Environment on 22nd February 2010
As a committed environmentalist and passionate advocate for wood, it is the genuine green credentials of the material that inspire me. But it also clearly inspires the marketing gurus of other industries as well. An increasing...
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"Green" plastic carpets?!?
Posted auteur David Venables in Comment, Environment on 10th February 2010
I regard myself as a true "woody" so I get so frustrated when non-wood materials or products claim to be so much greener. It is a fact that wood is renewable, it stores carbon and has a very low embodied energy in most...