Green Options » oak http://greenoptions.com/tag/oak Posts tagged 'oak' Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:00:13 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Plant A Tree — Even Wall Street Agrees http://cleantechnica.com/2009/04/03/plant-a-tree-even-wall-street-agrees/ http://cleantechnica.com/2009/04/03/plant-a-tree-even-wall-street-agrees/#comments Fri, 03 Apr 2009 23:00:13 +0000 Alan Smith http://cleantechnica.com/2009/04/03/plant-a-tree-even-wall-street-agrees/

A new way to treat wood has trees back in the limelight: a hardwood’s reliability that even a rain forest mahogany tree can love.

The above picture is of the world’s first heavy traffic road bridge made from Accoya® wood. The bridge, located in Sneek in the Netherlands, is “the first wooden bridge in the world that can support the heaviest load class of 60 tons”.  At this week’s Wall Street Green Trading Summit, a panel on forestation introduced a new way of thinking about how to deal with destruction of the rain forest.

>> More from the recent Wall Street Green Trading Summit:   Opening, Carbon Markets, Weird Investments and Solar Panels for All.

I think we can all agree that planting trees is a good way to go environmentally green (they capture carbon like crazy), but lets take a look at that other green for a moment: the green of cash.  Forestation can turn a profit quickly, given that it is one of the few industries in the United States that we know for sure will be cross marketable as a carbon offset industry. 

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