Sentences with phrase «using wood»

To begin the project I constructed a nine - foot, ten sided deck using wood salvaged from a torn down shed and concrete pier blocks that were found on site.

Foster + Partners are doing the Canary Wharf station and are using wood for part of it, which I find surprising, given Norman Foster's penchant for lightweight high tech.

Moreover, it demonstrates the efficacy of using wood in buildings that typically have been both plain in appearance and poor in performance.

Using wood for trees, I posted the 120 month graph on the thread at Climate Etc..

Renovo takes sold wood planks (using wood such as ash, fir, bobinga), glues the planks into a triangle shape, then hollows out this rudimentary frame.

Development involves accelerating poor countries further up the energy ladder, from using wood and dung, to coal, gas, and eventually zero - carbon sources like solar and nuclear.

I was doing work on how Europeans had manage to back out out of heating and utilities, and found out about a lot of both electric capacity and home heating equipment that could use two or even three fuels (Yes, Swedish home boilers using wood, oil and electricity!).

• Ethanol production using wood biomass required 57 % more fossil energy than the ethanol fuel produced.

Also, better food handling and behavior is preventing waste, and there are increasingly more alternatives to using wood as fuel.

One of the major issues when others have tried to build a tiny house is by using wood and other combustible materials.

One group proposed using a wood burning stove in lieu of electricity to conserve energy.

The Rainforest Action Network, for example, in recent years has forged deals with companies such as Home Depot Inc. to quit using wood products from endangered forests in exchange for public endorsements.»

Their research shows that using wood instead of coal in power generation increases the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere, worsening climate change until — and only if — the harvested forests regrow.

This will be the worst problem post election by falling back to the governor's fraudulent cap and trade schemes that promote using wood in the wrong places instead of places that reduce the most emissions.

In June of 2010, Manomet and its partners released the results of a six - month study to better understand the implications of using wood for energy in Massachusetts, titled «Biomass Sustainability and Carbon Policy Study.»

Manomet's interest, as study leader, is to advance society's understanding of using wood biomass energy, and not to promote or discourage forest biomass energy.

With respect to energy policy, I hope you'll agree that we all benefit from having a more in - depth understanding of the greenhouse gas implications of using wood for energy.

The energy poverty numbers are as staggering as they are heartbreaking — 1.3 billion people lacking electricity, and 2.7 billion people using wood, charcoal, or dung for cooking fuel.

I hope the study will help prompt a more thorough discussion of using wood for energy in our society.

I hope you will agree that, with respect to understanding the greenhouse gas implications of using wood for energy, the team has made a valuable contribution to our scientific knowledge.

The central message of this study is that the carbon accounting for using wood harvested from Massachusetts forests for energy is more complex than most people previously thought.

And the pollution now experienced every day by billions who do not have the wealth of Americans and Europeans includes cooking in a mud hut using wood and dung as fuel when they can not afford a chimney.

KiOR's biorefinery in Columbus, Mississippi started commercial production in March using wood chips to produce cellulosic fuels, and Ineos just announced on July 31 that their Indian River BioEnergy plant in Florida has begun operations to make biofuels from plant waste.

One of the most versatile ways of using wood is to turn it into plywood, which has been used in some very surprising ways since the early 1800s.

But another reason for using wood is that it goes up quickly, with less disruption.

But even better is using wood from recycled products - like old whiskey barrels, the source of Shwood's latest line.

First, is there any city in the U.S. not using wood as the primary housing material?

You can find more information on using wood ash in your garden from The Royal Horticultural Society.

Positive can continue to dominate due to aspects related to psychological handling, and more heat has been shown to increase conflict potential, increased disruptions means increased rebuilding efforts, by all means (using wood and coal for burning if someone lacks technological advancements).

ITHACA, NY and WASHINGTON, DC - Middle school kids build nest boxes using wood certified to the SFI Standard.

The good news is that designers and contractors have come up with some innovative ways of using the wood before it rots.

Garde Rail Gallery: 11 a.m. 5 p.m. Artist Kevin Titzer creates sculptures using wood, metal and other debris found near his home in Ohio.

After 1975 he returned to using wood, but henceforth only unaltered blocks reminiscent of railway sleepers: see, for instance, The Way North, East, South, West (1975, Agnes Gind Private Collection).

Also included in the collection is block - printed fabrics made using wood offcuts, ceramic tiles with brightly coloured chips, furniture made from blackened burnt wood, and cabinet handles smoke - fired and «seasoned» with banana skins and pine needles to create different patterns and tones.

Often using wood, bronze, graphite to create rough, expressive figures that seemingly defy physics, the artist is a legend in the realm of large - scale public sculpture.

For his piece Cavemanman, he transformed a gallery space into a cave using wood, cardboard, and tape and put various philosophical and pop culture symbols throughout it.

Vivid colors and forms found in Yamamoto's paintings that were referred by Midori Matsui as uniting «decorative design and symbolic association by combining geometrical patterns with plant images» (Midori Matsui, «Winter Garden: The Exploration of the Micropop Imagination in Contemporary Japanese Art» Bijutsu Shuppan - Sha Co., Ltd, p. 78) have been liberated from the rules of using wood that is found in daily life.

In the 40's she began to experiment with various media, using the wood and junk she found on the streets of New York and creating the assemblages of it.

In «Dimensions Variable» Gortner hand sculpts each surface using wood, foam, staples, canvas and acrylic paint before using oil paint to realistically render the figure.

Being a part of the American Abstract Artists Group, Louise finally stopped using wood and began relying on marble, plaster and bronze to consist her structure.

He made sculpture in plastic and also in wood, using wood which he could scavenge or steal from construction sites.

The artist doesn't shy away from experimenting with new techniques and media, so she developed a unique canvas, using wood panels, a blanket and cotton fabric.

Just before that I was making combine pieces using wood and stone in relationship to a white painted field.

Rail: Was there a specific reason for using enamel paint and for using wood panel as surface support?

We spoke with Taylor about how her paintings relate to the decorative arts, how her work is changing, and what first attracted her to using wood in her work.

Only a select few items are shown in the trailer with players using wood planks to board up leaking holes in the lower decks of their ships or having a drink which makes them drunk in - game.

Using wood is obviously the quickest way but steel and bricks are going to protect you just that little bit more.

Studio apartment Laura Split includes parking space, SATV, TV, air conditioning, heating, washer, hairdryer, iron, microwave, electric cooktops, free wireless internet, a possibility of using wood grill in the backyard.

, you will find one local village and two hotels, Pearl Beach Resort and Gili Ashan Eco Lodge, the latter being a fave for us as it has been lovingly designed and built using wood and bamboo, setting off the island ambience perfectly.

nvironmentally friendly materials and products are used wherever possible, including furniture that has either been up - cycled or made using wood from Forest Stewardship Council - approved sustainable forests.