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They're disappearing because some timber companies go in with clear-cutting.
It's just steel and timber.
So in fact, the price of timber in the Beijing marketplace ought to have been three-times what it was had it reflected the true pain and the costs to the society within China.
We are made from crooked timber, vulnerable to illusions, self-centeredness and at times astounding stupidity.
More precisely, the timber yard of a hardware store.
People were cooking on their only fuel source, green timber.
The smoke coming off that timber is choking, and in an enclosed house, you simply can't breathe.
We've been engineering them with an engineer named Eric Karsh who works with me on it, and we've been doing this new work because there are new wood products out there for us to use, and we call them mass timber panels.
Mass timber panels are those 24-dot bricks.
Well, mass timber panels, these new products that we're using, are much like the log.
And we're doing this because so many of the countries rich in natural resources like oil or diamonds or timber are home to some of the poorest and most dispossessed people on the planet.
These are Mashco-Piros on the Brazil-Peru border who stumbled out of the jungle because they were essentially chased out by drug runners and timber people.
That shoot, we watched it grow a meter in three days just last week, so we're talking about sustainable timber in three years.
This forest was almost completely cleared for timber, agriculture, cattle ranching and the construction of cities, and today only seven percent of the Atlantic forest is still left standing.
Right now, humans use half of the world to live, to grow their crops and their timber, to pasture their animals.
We're talking about regrown agricultural fields, timber plantations that are not being managed on a day-to-day basis, second-growth forests generally, the entire East Coast, where after agriculture moved west, the forest sprung up.
And we have alternatives, such as mud, stones, timber, bamboo, earth, that are totally effective options for all sorts of purposes.
Blood diamonds, smuggled emeralds, timber, that is cut right from under the poorest.
After World War II, timber harvesting got going in the west, and the logging removed the large and the old trees.
So I decided that I had to come up with a solution for her but also a solution that will benefit the people that are trying to exploit those forests, to get their hands on the last timber and that are causing, in that way, the loss of habitat and all those victims.
So we plant it later, along the waterways to filter the water, provide the raw products just in time for when the timber becomes available.
And then slowly, the trees start taking over, bringing in produce from the fruits, from the timber, from the fuel wood.
If you would use a little bit of your technology to put tracking devices in trucks, and use Google Earth in combination with that, you could directly tell what palm oil has been sustainably produced, which company is stealing the timber, and you could save so much more carbon than with any measure of saving energy here.
The people get that acacia timber which we have preserved with the bamboo peel, and they can build a house, they have some fuel wood to cook with.
It was built by the timber of Her Majesty's Ship Resolute and given by Queen Victoria.
They've taken over the timber industry and been shipping the lumber east, back into China.
Maybe a timber rattlesnake lived there.
Ebonies, like most African hardwood, are exploited for timber, but we know very little about their ecology, what disperses them, how they survive in our forest 80 to 200 years.
When he sends down a stump, the frogs ask for another king, saying the stump is but "political timber."
Build a farmhouse out of a heap of timber, use the leftovers to glue a tower together with a propeller on it so that it vaguely resembles a windmill and... presto, we are in Holland!
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