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...water? Builders in the Netherlands aren't thinking houseboats, but wood-and-aluminum constructions that float atop huge pieces of polystyrene encased in concrete. Six prototype homes have been towed to Ijburg, near Amsterdam. Imported from Canada, the concept dates to the 1930s, when lumberjacks built shacks on floating timber they couldn't sell, say developers Ooms Avenhorn. Another 250 houses - to sell for at least 3220,000 - are in the pipeline, as are 12 to 16 more developments. Even more ambitious are plans to apply the technology to roads. A 70-m prototype, to be tested in June...
...opened to logging. The issue mainly concerns the two largest American forests: the Tongass—which is the size of West Virginia—and Chugach National Forests, both in Alaska. Current bills coming out of the House of Representatives reduce public comment and legal action on timber permits, let 50 logging contracts proceed and potentially open up about 14 million acres of the forests to logging while expanding a program where companies are able to log in areas where they clear underbrush in order to “prevent fires.” In addition, Bush recently opened...
...River in the California Sierras, Ruby Johnson Jenkins says she smells trouble. Stretching out before her is a vast panorama of blackened slopes, a grim legacy of the fire last August that burned more than 150,000 acres of the Sequoia National Forest. But it isn't the charred timber that makes her wrinkle her nose. The ill odor, she says, is coming from Washington, specifically from President George W. Bush's controversial plan to increase logging in national forests in the name of reducing the risk of fires...
...everything in the forest burned. Clumps of oaks still show green against the blackened slopes, and the fire stopped short of the ancient stands of sequoias. But among the Forest Service's restoration options is a plan to take out as much as 10 million board feet of timber from Sequoia National Monument. Although some ecologists say it's a necessary treatment for forests that will wither without resuscitation, from the mouths of Bush allies, it smells rotten to many environmentalists. "It seems as if they've been looking for an opportunity to log," says Jenkins, "and the fires have...
Most corporations will do whatever will pay them back in the intermediate term. Think of the "low-hanging fruit" issues--waste, energy use, pollution. There is a social mandate to fix those problems. But what in the world does a timber company, say, care about biodiversity? There has to be some other way to inject that interest to make a company use its resources to help solve that problem...