[Terrapreta] Tree planting -- a bit more

[lou gold]

Duane,

You are part right. Saw timber that becomes house and furniture do
constitute a carbon sink. BUT I'll bet that no more than 20% of the original
forest biomass ends up in these uses. Most goes to paper products,
co-generation and plain old waste. Cutting forests with the presumed goal of
a home carbon sink is not the way to go.

all best,

lou



On Dec 4, 2007 2:54 AM, Duane Pendergast <still.thinking at computare.org>
wrote:

>  Lou,
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> I guess Mike has not noticed yet that Canada's dead trees become houses in
> Canada and the US. There's your carbon sink. The renewing forest keeps on
> removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.  The missing link here is to
> turn any dead houses into charcoal and rebuild the soil with them. Keep up
> the good work.
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> Duane
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> -----Original Message-----
> *From:* terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org [mailto:
> terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] *On Behalf Of *lou gold
> *Sent:* December 3, 2007 9:45 PM
> *To:* Terrapreta
> *Subject:* [Terrapreta] Tree planting -- a bit more
>
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> Kelpie Wilson over at TruthOut as juxtaposed two recent articles on tree
> planting, soils, etc.
> They reveal the issues. http://www.truthout.org/issues_06/120307EA.shtml
>
> There's tremendous misunderstanding and I suspect lots is reported without
> full context. Here's an example:
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>     "Forests are a band-aid," said Mike Flannigan, a research scientists
> at the Canadian Forest Service. "Eventually, forests die, releasing all that
> stored carbon into the atmosphere."
>
>     "Forests are carbon-neutral over the long term," Flannigan told IPS.
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