Sustainability

A collection of articles and letters on renewables, sustainability, and related matters...

GROW YOUR OWN
Growing bananas in the UK?
Planting and Global Warming - Daphne Ledward
Exotic Seeds Collection - Garden Organic / HDRA
Grow your own Potatoes
The Kings' Cross Orchard
Leicestershire Apples

ENVIRONMENTALLY-AWARE COMPANIES
Alara's Award for Sustainability, 2010

WOODWORKING:- PROPERTIES OF TIMBER
Alder (1829)
Ash (1829)
Beech (1829)
Birch (1829)
Blackthorn or Sloe (1829)
Box (1829)
Calamander (1829)
Chesnut (1829)
Crab or Crab-Apple (1829)
Cypress (1829)
Ebony (1829)
Elder (2010)
Elm (1829)
Eucalyptus (1963)
Fruit trees (1829)
Hawthorn (1829)
Holly (1829)
Horse Chesnut (1829)
Laburnum (1829)
Mahogany (1829)
Oak (1829)

The best Oak trees

European Oak

Cork Oak

Factors affecting durability
Pine(1829)

Cedar

Larch

Silver Fir

The Slide of Alpnach
Poplar (1829)
Satinwood (1829)
Teak (1829)
White Beam(1829)
Yew(1829)

PLASTICS
Plastics from trees?

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