UMass Study Finds Eastern White Pine Ideal for New Sustainable Building Material
Eastern White Pine, one of the Northeast’s most treasured native trees, has been found to be structurally sound for use in cross-laminated timber (CLT)…
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France Will Require All New Buildings to Be Made From 50% Wood
Here’s an interesting update on the international trend towards more wooden architecture. The French government is implementing a new sustainability law requiring all new…
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Stumps and Twigs: USDA Launches Study to Find Uses for Logging Leftovers
A new USDA study just launched on the East Coast that will examine how to best reuse logging industry “residue” for renewable energy and…
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Sustainable Wood is the Material of the Future
Not so long ago, the idea of a skyscraper or a car made almost entirely out of wood might have sounded a bit ridiculous….
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Long-Lived Wood Products Can Benefit the Climate Even More Than We Thought
There are lots of great reasons to make all sorts of things out of wood. It’s beautiful, durable, renewable and strong. It only gets…
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How Information Technology and DNA Testing Are Boosting Sustainable Forestry
We treasure our forests as wildlife habitats and peaceful, technology-free refuges where we can submerse ourselves in nature and forget the industrialized world outside….
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