If you are looking for reclaimed wood, be it for flooring, furniture, crafts, or even to make artwork, you might be wondering where to start and how to know if you are getting not only the best deal, but genuine reclaimed wood. There are a few savvy buying skills that will make it easier: 1. Check the logo When buying your lumber or materials, check that it carries the logo of the FSC, which proves that it is from a sustainable source. Even reclaimed wood should carry the FSC recycled logo to prove that it meets set standards. 2.…
In the article “Why Trees Matter,” author Jim Robbins paints a scientific picture of a simple subject: Trees. People normally don’t give trees much thought, but Jim Robbins does. Robbins is so dedicated to tree conservation that he felt the need to write a whole article about the science behind trees. Throughout the article he provides information on the importance of trees in all of our ecosystems. He reminds us that without trees the whole life cycle would depreciate.…
Hemp can be recycled almost 3 times more than tree-based paper( ). The uses of hemp can also extend into construction. Fiberboards made from hemp are lighter yet stronger. Houses and buildings can be made without cutting down excessive amounts of trees. Trees take many years to grow and play a big part of our environment.…
Technology is a wonderful thing at time but over the years it has proved itself to cause many problems. We have discovered that technology has many negative consequences that attempt to ruin our society. Some of the negative consequences of being too dependent on technology are that it has taught us to seek convenience rather than using our minds and doing something the way it is meant to be done. We have also allowed technology to influence our minds too much. Technology has been able to influence our minds too much, this is shown in both Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury and then article “Is Google making us stupid?” by Nicholas Carr.…
They live just beneath the bark of the tree and move in a zig-zig pattern along the tree. As travels under the bark and above the thick layer of wood, it lives a silent and dark world. It takes in the nutrients it needs from the tree. While tunneling through tree the larva is causing damage to the tree by feeding on the thin layer of tissue under the trees bark called the cambium. After a few weeks of this it metamorphoses into an adult beetle.…
The idea of producing short lifespans devices is the major cause of what lead to a huge amount of electronics waste around the world. Meanwhile, since they are hazardous when they get into fire, they can cause people to have more chances to develop blood, brain, and kidney cancer. Speaking about impacts, I witnessed some of the impact when I went to Haiti. Places where other people dumped their trash, such as canals and beaches causing harm to the poor people who live in the area. They often suffer from many type of disease such as tuberculosis.…
I think the most impacting information i became aware of is that it dangers your children so much. I do not see myself ever smoking again and i am very aware of the dangers i've done to my…
Smoking provides risks that can harm a person's mentally and physically. Using them can cause many of these risks to go down. Many more adults start using an E-cigarette more than smoking a regular cigarette stop stop harming their body. If using an E-cigarette cause a slower risk of health problems, then why not stop selling normal cigarettes. E-cigarettes are used to get rid of the urges to smoke.…
For my biology project I chose to plant a Palo verde tree. I decided to plant my tree in the front yard of my house. It is near a few cacti and some other trees. I put some black fencing around the tree to protect it from any wild animals, such as the jackrabbits that like to roam in my yard. I watered my tree every day for the past two months.…
In an advancing twenty first century, technology is playing a part in every sector of people’s lives. There are always positive and negative affects to everything, and new technologies are a prime example of this. People have always been interested in what the World’s oceans can provide, and people are using new technology to investigate these possibilities. However, technology can have a negative affect on different biodiversity in the ocean. Focusing specifically on the Atlantic Ocean, biodiversity is experiencing the positive and negative affects of technology.…
Truffula Seeds and Actual Trees People use trees for everything, to build a house, to catch a mouse, to get from here, and make it there. Trees are what we need, if we ran out of trees, we couldn't do as we please. Trees also give us oxygen, which we use to for breathing, and wood planks which we use for keys. So if we ran out of trees, we wouldn't be able to do respiration, have cool furniture, or paper.…
Yes, I believe that using controlled fires to protect wild areas are beneficial. Controlled fires help maintain the health of an existing natural area containing native plants and they help manage weeds and other growth, which helps to reduce the risk of wildfires. Fire is one of the best outdoor management tools for invasive plant control. For over 10 years ecologists have been using this technique, which has spread to many other trained people to use as a tool. Woodlands, prairies, and wetlands are perfect natural communities for contained fires.…
In 2016, children between ten and seventeen had an obesity percentage of 31.3 percent, with 13.9 percent among high school students. Obesity is spreading in America’s children quickly, but this problem can be delayed. Technology, eating healthy, and fighting the poverty level are a few of the problems that cause childhood obesity. Poverty and unemployment is a very critical reason why childhood obesity in America is rising fast. People living in poverty and unemployed people cannot afford healthy foods, so they are forced to buy cheaper unhealthy products, but not much can be done about this.…
The Great Bear Rainforest is a temperate rainforest of 6.4 million hectares, home to many rare and endangered species, as well as watersheds that provide the best salmon runs left in Canada. Unfortunately, the Great Bear Rainforest is under threat due to clearcutting and its effects on the environment. According to the David Suzuki Foundation, “30% of logging in the Great Bear Rainforest has been in watersheds since 2001”, meaning the water quality of that area has been affected. As for wildlife, deforestation is one of the leading causes of animal extinction in the world today. Due to the negative effects deforestation has on wildlife and watersheds, the acts of clearcutting in the Great Bear Rainforest must subside.…
As we grow older and older, technology seems to be taking a toll in our daily lives. Everywhere we go, we see people glued on to their cell phones, ipads and laptops. Many of us can agree with the fact that at the dinner table everyone is on some type of electronic device. Everyone seems to be more interested in checking emails, taking phone calls and even playing games on their phone. Technology has everyone stuck on their phones instead of carrying on a conversation with each other about their day.…