To do so, WWF works to strengthen the US government's ability to prosecute illegal timber cases; stop illegal logging in countries that export high volumes of timber; ensure full implementation of the Lacey Act, a US law that prohibits illegal timber and
timber products from entering the US market; and design rural energy programs that rely on fuels other than firewood.
The world's eight largest industrial countries plus the rest of the European Union buy 280 million cubic meters of timber and
timber products from abroad each year, accounting for 74 percent of the world's timber imports.
Not exact matches
The communities successfully manage 660,800 hectares of forest, and have earned US$ 13 million since 2013
from the sale of sustainable
timber and other forest
products.
Wendy says, «There's nothing better than creating quality
products from locally sourced
timbers, it gives the consumer the option of real choice and real quality, which in turn supports our economy by creating employment for our Australian craftsmen and women.»
Exhibitors
from all States are invited to participate in this national event showcasing Australian Made Lounge, Dining, Case Goods, Solid
Timber products, Bedding and Bedroom.
MOST
products sourced
from tropical
timber destroy the forest — and a sustainability logo may not be a reliable guide to your green conscience.
We offer a wide range of packaging
products from Timber packaging, cardboard boxes, heavy duty cardboard transit packaging, printed tape, cardboard tubes, bubble wrap and many more cushioning and wrapping
products.
Street Furniture is dedicated to best practice in environmental management and its
products are made
from premium materials, locally sourced where possible, and it uses eco-certified
timber from sustainably managed forests.
Once again, all of the Year 8s were involved in developing and trialling food stalls and running them, but then we had groups
from right across the school: kids funded through disabilities and impairments were making amazing
products out of recycled
timber; we had hands - on learning, our school - based apprenticeship parks and gardens group, selling plants and running a sausage sizzle; we had art students
from Year 8 doing ceramics; we had the girls group that's run by our wellbeing team, the kids who are a bit isolated, they produced succulents in tea cups.
Reforestation offers the opportunity for communities to empower themselves through the development of local economies and infrastructures — constructing homes with
timber, for instance, or selling and trading food and other
products that come
from the land.
It's made solely
from reclaimed or fallen
timber, making this
product an ecologically conscious choice.
We offer a wide range of packaging
products from Timber packaging, cardboard boxes, heavy duty cardboard transit packaging, printed tape, cardboard tubes, bubble wrap and many more cushioning and wrapping
products.
We offer a wide range of packaging
products from Timber packaging, cardboard boxes, heavy duty cardboard transit packaging, printed tape, cardboard tubes, bubble wrap and many more cushioning and wrapping
products.
Building with whole
timber — as opposed to milling it down into «
products» — has lots of advantages, ranging
from increased fire resistance (seems paradoxical but true), low embodied energy and carbon sequestration.
(05/14/2012) Carbon emissions
from deforestation vary greatly depending on whether
timber stocks are turned into finished wood
products, converted into bioenergy feedstocks, or burned outright, reports a new study published in Nature Climate Change.
One Planet Living principle Masdar Target ZERO CARBON 100 per cent of energy supplied by renewable energy — Photovoltaics, concentrated solar power, wind, waste to energy and other technologies ZERO WASTE 99 per cent diversion of waste
from landfill (includes waste reduction measures, re-use of waste wherever possible, recycling, composting, waste to energy) SUSTAINABLE TRANSPORT Zero carbon emissions
from transport within the city; implementation of measures to reduce the carbon cost of journeys to the city boundaries (through facilitating and encouraging the use of public transport, vehicle sharing, supporting low emissions vehicle initiatives) SUSTAINABLE MATERIALS Specifying high recycled materials content within building
products; tracking and encouraging the reduction of embodied energy within material sand throughout the construction process; specifying the use of sustainable materials such as Forest Stewardship Council certified
timber, bamboo and other
products SUSTAINABLE FOOD Retail outlets to meet targets for supplying organic food and sustainable and or fair trade
products SUSTAINABLE WATER Per capita water consumption to be at least 50 per cent less than the national average; all waste water to be re-used HABITATS AND WILDLIFE All valuable species to be conserved or relocated with positive mitigation targets CULTURE AND HERITAGE Architecture to integrate local values.
London Design Festival 2014: UK designer Sebastian Cox collaborated with Lorna Singleton — one of only four remaining experts in the UK in a wood working technique known as swilling — to form a collection of
products from strips of softened green
timber.
Cross Laminated
Timber (CLT)-- prefabricated panels of wood whose strength, dimensional stability, rigidity, and large spans make it a replacement for structural steel or concrete — is currently far
from a go - to building material in the U.S.. However, in what is likely an indicator of explosive growth, new
product offerings for North America are arising almost as quickly as new projects are constructed with the material.
For example, the market value of
timber does not reflect the ecological and hydrological functions of trees nor the forest
products whose values arise
from economic sectors outside the
timber industry, like medicines.
Since 2012, Forest Trends and Chatham House have been working with officials
from EU Member States and US Lacey enforcement agencies, to further understanding of complex high - risk supply chains for wood
products and support coordinated implementation of the EU
Timber Regulation and US Lacey Act.
Certification of the
timber or
timber - derived
products within a construction project provides independently verified assurance that the wood used originates
from responsibly managed forests with the material tracked through every stage of the process
from forest to the project.
As an all - wood mass
timber product, DowelLam does not contain any glue (aside
from a minute amount of glue used for finger jointing), chemicals, VOCs, or metal nails.
We can supply and fabricate all components of a
timber structure -
from mass
timber products such as CLT and NLT, to steel connectors, cables, and castings, to integrated structural panels complete with mechanical, electrical, and plumbing systems pre-installed in our shop.
From larger panel sizes possible (12 «x60») for faster erection times to a wide variety of wood species, DowelLam is a mass
timber product that is ideal for floor wall and roof structures.
Their business objective is to connect producers of biochar soil amendment, which is made
from forest litter and other
timber waste, with farmers who can use the
product to boost production and save water.
The leading German news magazine, Der Spiegel, has concluded that Austrian - based wood
products company Holzindustrie Schweighofer (Schweighofer) repeatedly agreed to accept illegally harvested
timber from undercover...
Siakor and his SDI colleagues are now campaigning against a government plan that would allow
timber from agricultural concessions to be exported as a legal, sustainably produced
product, thus accelerating the rate of deforestation.
Author Bio Casey Malmquist, President and General Manager of SmartLam, has served in this position since SmartLam's inception in January of 2012, and has led the SmartLam team
from the ground level to becoming a globally - recognized producer of Cross-Laminated
Timber products.
If you're looking to buy
products using sustainably harvested
timber from Brazil and it comes
from the state of Pará, you may want to reconsider.
This system allows consumers to identify, purchase and use
timber and forest
products produced
from well - managed forests.
They also sell
products,
from structural components to mass
timber to plumbing hardware.
Using glulam
timbers allows for a larger final
product than using dimensional lumber, and they can be produced
from lower grades of
timber.
We offer a wide range of packaging
products from Timber packaging, cardboard boxes, heavy duty cardboard transit packaging, printed tape, cardboard tubes, bubble wrap and many more cushioning and wrapping
products.
Rather than telling people not to buy high - pollution
products made in sweat - shops, we need to make sure that taxation regimes identify and add in the externalised costs that we now all bear
from «cheap» T - shirts or rainforest
timber.»
The material has been used in Europe for about two decades — and about eight years in Canada — but the push for more wood in U.S. construction stemmed
from an oversupply of the
product in neighboring Canada, as well as a desire to bring more jobs to rural areas of the Pacific Northwest, hurt by a dwindling
timber industry, he adds.
Management believes that the ongoing U.S. housing market recovery and a
timber supply shortage
from Canada will cause demand for its
products to strengthen in 2015, but it does not anticipate a near - term rebound in demand
from China or Japan.