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 [Inhabitat] BKLYN SNEAK PEEK: Bamboo Furniture from Ecosystems: New sustainable furniture company EcoSystems creates cute, family-friendly furniture that is as thoughtful of the environment as it is to the owner. Starting with renewable materials, EcoSystems follows an earth-minded agenda from start .

 [India latest Pantel Deluxe online news.] Retailers Offer Mixed Bag of Sustainable Wooden Garden Furniture: Deforestation, especially in tropical forests, accounts for approximately one quarter of global greenhouse gas emissions as well as the rapid disappearance of the worlds remaining natural forest habitats, said Eric Palola, executive director of the National Wildlife Federations wildlife restoration campaign. The good news is more and more retailers are offering wooden garden furniture made from sustainably-harvested forests.

[myofficefurnitureguide.info] Cool Gadget / Invention Of The Day (AskMen): A sustainable aqua ecosystem meets office furniture in the newest design from AZOO. The Eco-desk is a self-cleaning, fully functioning aquarium in a desk thanks to its patented filtration system, which makes maintenance no hassle at .

 [OLYecology weblog] 337 - Earth's Tree News: This blatant disregard of Congress came on the heels of the release of a report by a panel of experts assembled by the Sustainable Ecosystems Institute (SEI) in Portland that found the draft spotted owl recovery plan underestimates the .

 [shangrilachina] Modern furniture: The minds behind Habersham's new Hearst Castle Collection of furniture easily decided that imitation most certainly would not be the best form of flattery .

[Nandu Green] Rainforest Rescue: And furniture retailer Ikea requires that all of its tropical hardwoods be cut in areas that have won approval from the Forest Stewardship Council, a German group that issues certificates of approval to companies that follow sustainable practices. Ikea cut off purchases of Indonesian teak in October, 2001, after battles erupted between local villagers and a government-owned supplier in Java over ownership of the trees.

 [olyecology weblog] 341 - Earth's Tree News: At the end of the 1980s I awoke like many others to the Lysenko-esque applied science of sustained yield, the paradigm for forest management in BC, in North America, and globally in the 20th century. In this forest management framework - as mandated for BC forests by the Sloan Commissions after World War II and implemented first by a series of WAC Bennett governments and then by all subsequent governments - overmature old growth forests were to be liquidated on a schedule (the annual allowable cut) on tenure areas leased to forest companies (Tree Farm Licences, Timber Supply Areas) and replanted with trees to be logged again in seventy to a hundred years.

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[Green Building Sector - Latest Expert Blog Articles at http://www.greenedia.com] BKLYN SNEAK PEEK: Bamboo Furniture from Ecosystems: New sustainable furniture company EcoSystems creates cute, family-friendly furniture that is as thoughtful of the environment as it is to the owner. Starting with renewable materials, EcoSystems follows an earth-minded agenda from start to finish, including taking responsibility for their designs at end of its (first) lifecycle, by taking back and recycling their furniture when you are done with it.

 [olyecology weblog] 335 - Earth's Tree News: We have also come to realize through growth and yeield modelling we are doing that it will take 1,000 years to grow a monumental cedar (>1 meter diameter, straight wood for totem poles, etc). Three factors which will ensure cedar extinction, if strong actions are not taken: (1) Highgrading: In recent years about 50% of trees logged on the BC Coast are cedar - whilst the profile in the forest may be roughly 20% cedar (locally much higher on the west coast) So with an Allowable Annual Cut (AAC) based on forest growth where 80% of trees are hemlock and 20% Cedar, on the Coast 50% of the trees logged are cedar.

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