What is happening with the use of wooden furniture, bamboo furniture Posts
Posted By Teressa on December 11, 2011
What is happening with furniture? Nothing, if you do not worry about how we can keep the consumption of timber resources. For starters, the world as we know it is losing forests. This causes a decrease in the environment and extremely difficult to secure funds for furniture.
On 09/01/2011 German Prime Minister Persson, who is also a member of the World Resources Institute, the Board said: “Recovery of 150 million hectares of degraded land in an interesting and largely untapped opportunity to create more jobs and economic growth, but also protect the climate. ” Bonn Challenge, based in New Overall, the World Resources Institute project to realize that more than 2 billion hectares of degraded and defeated countries are available for recovery. For the convenience of the reader, Mo, March is the mass of about 14.9 billion hectares (36.8 billion acres). So more than 13.4% of the country on the earth recoverable from deforestation and degrading. The aim of the “Challenge Bonn” is in fact to one percent of Earth’s surface, or 7.5% of deforested land. There are three categories, depending on the width of forests and climate, ie tropical, subtropical, temperate and coniferous forests. Last century, the world lost 20% of its forests. The remaining tropical forests are exactly / subtropical forests in developing countries and temperate / coniferous forests in developed countries. According to Lester R. Brown in his book titled “Plan B 3.0, mobilizing to save civilization”, the world lost 13 million hectares of forest since 1990, the area roughly the size of Greece, and the developed world is in fact 5.6 million hectares of forest annually in same time. He went on to describe that the net loss is worse than it looks, because free classification of forest land. Only 40 percent of the world’s remaining forest cover can be called natural forest are able to maintain all biological diversity. What are the causes of deforestation? These can be characterized by the following factors: * Fuel wood: developing countries in Africa, Haiti, Madagascar, etc., are in high demand as a fuel and recreation, especially forests for fuel wood, more than half of the forest was lost in exchange for fuel , * Book: This is still largely used by Woods and recycling in developed countries to reduce the total consumption of wood for paper and even paper mills brought to a close, but is still a major player in this field, * Wood: Construction and wood products and continue to rely on the forests, the furniture, China has a leading position in the market for wood products and looking for the world’s resources than Nigeria and the Philippines, where forests were tired, the last use of forests in Myanmar, Papua New Guinea and Siberia and the Amazon and the Congo Basin. Forest Trends, non-governmental organization, predicted that vein until the mother will not take longer than 20 years. * Ranches and farms: In many developing countries like Brazil, Malaysia and Indonesia to change forest farms to raise cash and farm animals in commodity crops such as palm oil for human consumption or diesel fuel, which term, Lester R. Brown so-called “ecological / economic downward spiral” of no return. Wood products include furniture, flooring, roofing, chipboard and other building materials. Traditionally, we either keep or replace them with other materials such as aluminum, cement, plaster, plastic, etc., many other good reasons. However, furniture, bamboo is the only one that is organic and is made from ancient times in the last decade, “green” movement environmentally sustainable bamboo furniture. Bamboo forests also spread to all continents, mainly in tropical and subtropical areas . They are already part of the ecosystem, such as wood in the forest, but in fact belongs to the grass species, which means it can grow back after the cut stems. World population grows and demand for furniture will continue to grow over the remaining supplies of wood for the furniture industry. Intended for developing countries, always trying to jump Frog and the industrialized countries, because these seem to be setting standards. How to connect the world with the rest of the world? One possibility is the use of imported furniture, which is the rule rather than the exception in the last decade. Needless to say, this is a long way to go before the fall furniture market is bamboo. However, it is time to make a personal statement in support of “green” and environmental sustainability. Use more bamboo furniture, instead of cutting the last tree in the woods around you (you’re lucky enough to find).About the Author Paul Pai, Ed.D. He is the founder and president of FE Global, LLC, a California-based Internet retailer of bamboo and bamboo equipment http://www.finebamboochairs.com. It is also a consultant for international cooperation in higher education. His passion for environmental sustainability and environmentally friendly products to keep him looking for ways to promote sustainable education in the world. He and his family lived and worked in seven states from coast to coast in the U.S. and consultation with China over the past twelve years.
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