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Wood is the original green building materiai. Consider the following:

Green for tife - In a crad.le- to-grave analysis of identically constructed wood, steel and concrete homes, the wood home was more environmentally beneficial in terms of energy consumed, air/w aler pollution, waste production and global warming potential.*

Demand keeps it growingForest growth in the U.S. has continually exceeded harvest since the 1940s. We now grow 27 percent more t.imber each year than is harvested.

More product, less energlrCompare the energy requirements for manufacturing one ton of wood to one ton of other building materials. It takes..

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5 times more energy to produce cement

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24 tirnes more energy to nrndrrnp ctppl

Nature's air purifier -

A2,400 sq. ft. house locks up 28.5 tons of CO2, or roughly 7 years of emissions from a small car.

Consortium For Research On Renewable lndustrial Matenals