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Author: kilo
Date: 2007-04-11 17:39
I find it depressing too. Really depressing. There are no easy answers but certainly the demand side of the equation has something to do with it. If the developed countries would only buy lumber with "green certification" or turn to renewable bamboo and engineeered composite structural materials it might be a start. I don't have much hope however, the lure of a quick profit being what it is.
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Author: Synonymous Botch
Date: 2007-04-11 18:22
This means, of course, that you'll be buying only "Green Certified Forestry practices" lumber when you shop? Or will you buy the cheap stuff?
Market rules apply pressures on the bottom line.
You really must wonder if only 10 thousand pounds were spent in the entire transaction as the holdings are in the Congo, which has a spectacular history of fair dealings with its own citizens.
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Author: bawa
Date: 2007-04-11 18:33
Well, I do look for those and other signs of fair-trade when I shop and am willing to pay higher for such products. Also try to buy local products, mostly possible where I live for food items.
Some of the cheap stuff is made of wood that comes from EU-certified sustainable forestry in Scandinavia, which is fine.
I think African hardwood products are going to be aimed at the upper-end of the market; cheap pine or beechwood is not going to come from there.
The cheap part only is at the prices they buy at, not how much they are sold for.
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Author: Alseg
Date: 2007-04-11 18:47
The two species that are mentioned, African Teak and Sapele, are not used in woodwinds.
Sad state of affairs, nontheless.
Former creator of CUSTOM CLARINET TUNING BARRELS by DR. ALLAN SEGAL
-Where the Sound Matters Most(tm)-
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Author: tictactux ★2017
Date: 2007-04-11 19:54
> This means, of course, that you'll be buying only "Green Certified Forestry
> practices" lumber when you shop? Or will you buy the cheap stuff?
Yes, only FSC wood, if ever possible. (this is a selling argument here, btw)
--
Ben
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Author: C2thew
Date: 2007-04-12 02:30
blood diamond part II
Our inventions are wont to be pretty toys, which distract our attention from serious things. they are but improved means to an unimproved end, an end which was already but too easy to arrive as railroads lead to Boston to New York
-Walden; Henry Thoreau
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