Sentences with phrase «wood industry took»

But during the»90s, the oil and wood industry took down great quantities of native woods in order to open routes to reach to oil reserves and to take down ancient trees to sell wood.

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Instead of processing commodities that might otherwise be used for food, next generation fuels can be produced from dedicated energy crops like switchgrass, to the non-edible parts of corn plants, to unmarketable wood from the lumber industry — taking resources that would otherwise go to waste and using them to fuel our energy independence.

For one, the dominance of brick walls, wood floors, big windows and frequent columns of its repurposed 19th - century factory buildings is the apotheosis of SoHo, whose small - industry loft spaces were taken over by commercial art galleries in the 1970s.

The North American wood products industry has taken its EPDs one step further by obtaining third - party verification from the Underwriters Laboratories Environment (ULE), an independent certifier of products and their sustainability.