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Within a month of the adoption of the plan, new environmental taxes on cars, gasoline, and wood products were imposed: China was using market based mechanisms to address its and the world's environmental problems.
Wood stores carbon, owing to photosynthesis.
Not so, replies strategic investment analyst H. Wood Brock in an interesting new book, The American Gridlock.
Just think of how your life would change if you had to walk two hours each day to obtain drinking water or wood for fuel.
Cottages with TV satellite antennas may be seen, but they will be surrounded by straw, mud, chopped wood and the aromatic stench of livestock.
We must not lose sight of the wood for the trees.
The conventional wisdom is that burning wood only releases the carbon sucked up while the tree was growing, and hence the net climate effect is zero.
Before long, the colonies were exporting wood to the many nations that no longer had the timber they needed for ships, casks, shingles, and other construction materials.
The text starts from a given set of characters and situations (a little girl, a mother, a grandmother, a wolf, a wood) and through a series of steps arrives at a solution.
The first author proposes a starting situation (the girl enters the wood) and different contributors develop the story - the girl does not meet a wolf but, instead, meets Pinocchio.
One does not play lightly with matches next to a pile of dry wood.
Renewable energy overwhelmingly comes from often-unsustainable burning of wood and biomass by people in the Third World.
Moreover, the use of wood by Africa's growing population is causing increasingly rapid deforestation in many countries.
There is significant potential domestic demand for coal briquettes to replace wood for cooking and domestic and industrial heating.
Plants, for example, interact with their environment to produce locally ordered systems, resulting in the creation of wood (and other biomass).
When we burn wood, we reverse the process, unraveling that order and producing energy.
Given their seemingly boundless benefits, it is unsurprising that plastics have replaced traditional materials in many sectors - for example, steel in cars, paper and glass in packaging, and wood in furniture.
In principle, there are only three ways to procure it: by withdrawing it from food or fodder production, from the production of natural materials - particularly wood - or from nature.
The larger the stocks of wood on earth, in the form of living trees or wooden construction material in buildings, the less CO2 there is in the atmosphere and the cooler the earth remains.
And why no target to reduce the 1.4 million deaths each year from indoor air pollution, largely caused by the use of poor fuels like wood, cardboard, and dung for cooking and heating?
It took thousands of people all over the world to make this pencil, Friedman said - to mine the graphite, cut the wood, assemble the components, and market the final product.
Wood-burning stoves are responsible for much of Africa's deforestation, and, in many African cities, where wood accounts for the majority of cooking fuel, its price is soaring.