Wood is green, LTU panel says
Great Lakes IT Report,
10/29/2009
How green is wood? Well, pretty dang green, says the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers. They were part of a panel at Lawrence Tech University discussing the greenness of wood structures.
Excerpt:
It turns out wood is the greener choice, speakers
said at "Wood: the More Sustainable Structural System," a presentation
of Lawrence Tech, the Canadian Council of Forest Ministers, the Detroit
Regional Chapter of the United States Green Building Council and
WWJ Newsradio 950.
"How many building materials are solar powered CO2 sucking machines
with a beautiful appearance?" asked Peter Moonen, sustainability and
special projects coordinator for British Columbia Wood Works, an
initiative of the Canadian Wood Council. "Wood is a carbon sink,
renewable, recyclable, reusable and organic."
And yet the typical image of the timber industry, he said, is "a guy with a chain saw going into the woods to kill trees."Read the entire article
here.