http://keetsa.com/blog/home-and-garden/furniture/wooden-flooring-for-environmental-conscious-consumers/ Keetsa! Blog is about eco-friendly and green stuff. Tue, 24 Nov 2009 04:37:40 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://keetsa.com/blog/home-and-garden/furniture/wooden-flooring-for-environmental-conscious-consumers/comment-page-1/#comment-61661 Trægulv Wed, 12 Aug 2009 05:12:08 +0000 http://keetsa.com/blog/?p=13383#comment-61661 wood flooring did exactly what you said it does. wood flooring did exactly what you said it does.

]]> http://keetsa.com/blog/home-and-garden/furniture/wooden-flooring-for-environmental-conscious-consumers/comment-page-1/#comment-59715 Alison Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:54:28 +0000 http://keetsa.com/blog/?p=13383#comment-59715 *emissions not *omissions *emissions not *omissions

]]> http://keetsa.com/blog/home-and-garden/furniture/wooden-flooring-for-environmental-conscious-consumers/comment-page-1/#comment-59714 Alison Wed, 18 Mar 2009 18:53:10 +0000 http://keetsa.com/blog/?p=13383#comment-59714 Some how these statistics don't sound right. Ever heard of deforestation? Regardless of whether companies and US Agriculture are replanting trees, trees are still being cut down in sensitive topographies. This leads to an unhealthy balance in these delicate eco-systems, uprooting plantation and animals. Furthermore, it increases disease. Also, take into account it takes MANY years for trees to grow to the height where they can actually be cut for domestic goods. A lot of the trees being planted to offset CO2 emissions won't grow to full size for many years. I would support re-purposed wood, it seems like the most ethical and green source of wood. Just because we can plant "new" trees doesn't mean we should use the ones we have now haphazardly. It's like murdering someone and then "washing away" the sin by repenting it at church. Just because you acknowledge the injustice doesn't mean it's okay to continue the same behavior. This is also why I think companies planting trees as a way to offset their carbon omissions is a cop out. Why not change your practices instead of making ammends for them? Some how these statistics don’t sound right. Ever heard of deforestation? Regardless of whether companies and US Agriculture are replanting trees, trees are still being cut down in sensitive topographies. This leads to an unhealthy balance in these delicate eco-systems, uprooting plantation and animals. Furthermore, it increases disease. Also, take into account it takes MANY years for trees to grow to the height where they can actually be cut for domestic goods. A lot of the trees being planted to offset CO2 emissions won’t grow to full size for many years. I would support re-purposed wood, it seems like the most ethical and green source of wood. Just because we can plant “new” trees doesn’t mean we should use the ones we have now haphazardly. It’s like murdering someone and then “washing away” the sin by repenting it at church. Just because you acknowledge the injustice doesn’t mean it’s okay to continue the same behavior. This is also why I think companies planting trees as a way to offset their carbon omissions is a cop out. Why not change your practices instead of making ammends for them?

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