Environmental Benefits
Green homes reduce the impact on the environment–including the reduction of green house gases – while increasing quality of life.
As climate change has emerged as the most important environmental issue of our time, it has become clear that forests and forest products are an important part of the solution.
Sustainable forestry practices and forest products – such as those supported by Linwood – help to reduce or prevent greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which are thought to be the major cause of climate change.
Forests help clean the air by absorbing pollutants, absorbing carbon dioxide and releasing oxygen.
Some interesting facts:
- Trees incorporate the absorbed carbon into their wood. The products made from that wood, such as lumber and furniture, continue to store the carbon indefinitely.
- A typical 2500 sq. ft. wood frame home has 30 metric tons of carbon stored in its structure. This is the equivalent of driving an average passenger car for five years or using about 2684 gallons (12200 litres) of gasoline.
- The U.S. and Canada have approximately the same amount of forested land today as they did 100 years ago.
- The volume of annual net timber growth was 36% higher than the volume of annual timber removals (2007 forestry study).