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Timber building materials and Global Climate Change

Timber.net.au The Australian Timber Database. Sustainably harvested timber has a very low carbon footprint compared to other building materials. A carbon Footprint is a measure of how much impact a particular product or component has in relation to global climate change. The use of sustainably harvested timber as a building material creates a much lower [...]

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Carbon footprint and Forestry products

According to Wikipedia, A carbon footprint has historically been defined as “the total set of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused by an organization, event, product or person.” However, calculating a carbon footprint which conforms to this definition is often impracticable due to the large amount of data required, which is often costly and time consuming [...]

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Carbon pollution and Wood as a building material

Carbon pollution and Wood as a building material

Going to air under the new Planet Ark Environmental Edge brand, a new television commercial highlights the fact that wood stores carbon and that this is an environmental positive. Australia’s native forests, timber plantations and wood products are net absorbers of greenhouse gases, sequestering 56.5 million tonnes of carbon dioxide in 2005, reducing Australia’s total [...]

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Wood – a low carbon footprint solution

Wood – a low carbon footprint solution

New thinking on wood. Purchasing and manufacturing products that incorporate wooden components can greatly reduce the overall embedded carbon footprint of those goods and the buildings into which they are employed.

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