Greenhouse Gas

Wood has an aesthetic beauty and ambience unequalled by any other material and has unique qualities that only nature can provide. Homeowners increasingly appreciate the environmental benefits and the design potential afforded by wood. Celebrity architects constantly endorse wooden windows over other alternatives for cutting edge designs.

~ Timber is environmentally friendly ~

Every country is urged to support sustainable development and when this refers to window and door products we can safely say that the only material available that meets this criterion for their manufacture is timber, unlike all other extracted or mined materials. According to ENGOs, (environmental government organisations) The WWF (World Wildlife Fund), and Greenpeace, wood is by far the best environmental choice for windows as it

is a totally renewable resource. With forests representing the single most important stabilising feature in the world s land mass, an international organisation, The Forest Stewardship Council requires its members to ensure that forests are replenished at least as much as they are harvested. As trees become older their ability to absorb CO2 reduces significantly and that is why these trees can be harvested and replaced by young ones.

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If we would come out of the great money loving society, Homeland Security begins at our own home. If we are building a house, make it a greenhouse. Should there be a toxic environment outdoors, there can always be fresh air and whole food indoors. If you have a home that is not a greenhouse, add skylights and an attached greenhouse. Such can heat your house on a Winter’s day and not be much threatened by toxic or hostile environment outside. Shade screen and vents can be used in Summer to moderate greenhouse temperature. When you grow your food inside your house, you are justified in having lots of floor space, but you don’t need much space if you develop

an appetite for sprouts. A floor to ceiling sprouting cabinet, two feet square with three inch deep trays can produce hundreds of pounds of fresh, vital food each week; from dry nuts, seeds, beans and grains. Just add clean water.

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There are many good reasons to conserve energy. If we use less gas, oil and electricity we will save money, and the pollution associated with extracting and using fossil fuels will decrease. Reducing greenhouse gas production may help to reverse global warming. In a nutshell - conservation of energy has both personal and societal benefits.

Most people are concerned with making their money last longer and energy conservation can help by reducing our energy costs. Homeowners can do many things to cut down on their energy needs. Perhaps the best thing they can do to is to install better insulation to retain warm and cool air.

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Many people watching the wild weather in the Midwest and in the Northeastern parts of the United States claimed it is due to global warming. However, this is disingenuous and a misrepresentation of fact. You see, mankind is not affect the weather that much but due to all the concrete we have put in, in many of our cities it does keep the surface temperatures about 5 degrees hotter than normal. When the surface temperatures are 5 degrees hotter that is similar to the ocean surface temperatures when they become hotter and help fuel Hurricanes.

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People tend to think of Armageddon in the biblical context. A great war of the end times - cataclysmic and terminal. That scenario is of course a growing possibility with our entry into a second nuclear age. More countries than ever have the bomb, and some have even threatened to use it. The complicated spider’s web of proliferation these days makes the cold war stand-off between the US and Soviet Union seem almost pedestrian by comparison. The threat possibilities now are a lot more difficult to both predict and contain.

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