Now go and
harvest some firewood from under that Alaskan Glacier, would you?
Just because forests are severely threatened in Haiti and Madagascar does not mean that Americans should refrain from
harvesting firewood near their homes.
Not exact matches
While my husband gathers
firewood for us, my job is to preserve the summer's
harvest so we have an abundance of our own food through out the winter.
Some of the tasks might include
harvesting fruit and vegetables, collecting
firewood,
harvesting olives and pruning the olive orchard and fruit trees.
The rest is caused by coal burning, the burning of
firewood and cow dung cakes for fuel and cooking, and crop fields after
harvest.
Firewood must be the greenest of power per the ability to
harvest waste wood for valuable energy and avoid decay of rotting woods that emit CO2 and methane.
By that we mean their
firewood is
harvested sustainably, it is burned cleanly and efficiently, and its energy is used to reduce the net greenhouse gas emissions responsible for global warming.
And it is not valuable enough even as
firewood to pay people to
harvest it... damn.
Commercial
firewood harvesting requires fossil fuel for chainsaws and trucks, undermining the argument for carbon neutrality.
Firewood harvesting and charcoal production are important drivers.
When these trees mature they will begin to be sustainably
harvested for
firewood.