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Sustainable Wood Furniture

is balsa wood one of sustainable/environmental-friendly materials?

if it's not, then what materials that sustainable/ environmental-friendly but easy to work with when i have to make small miniatures of furniture? (btw, this is interior design stuff, not crafts & hobbies)

again..., answer the main question then the rest okey

the most helpful answer would get 10 points thanks!
* environmental-friendly materials

Balsa Plantations

Issues: Natural Resource Stewardship, Community Development, Industry Shifts
Stakeholders: Customers, NGOs, Government, Communities
Region: South America

The acquisition of Baltek Corporation in March 2003 is an excellent example of maximizing value on a number of fronts: expanding the group's product offerings, integrating with existing composite technologies, and being environmentally sustainable in that balsa is a very fast self-generating species and a naturally renewable resource. Alcan's harvesting of balsa wood does not impact on any rain forest or natural forest environment.

With the gradual disappearance of old-growth balsa, in the early 1970s Baltek began an ambitious program of growing balsa trees under plantation conditions. With limited scientific data, Baltek's pioneering efforts were aimed at producing its raw material on a sustained yield basis, thus providing economic stability for the company and the region. Early challenges included seed sourcing, site characteristics and insect/disease relationships.

Today, with over 16,000 acres of new growth, Baltek is recognized as the most important contributor to reforestation in Ecuador and is a frequent collaborator in the exchange of ideas and scientific data with universities and specialized laboratories around the world. Baltek is the world's leading supplier of balsa-based composite core materials and contributes to the group's pursuit of Maximizing Value with products that uniquely complement Alcan's existing structural foam core range, especially in the marine, mass transportation, aerospace and the fast growing wind power markets.

It would seem that balsa wood is sustainable.

Intercropping is the Alternative Way for Furniture Industry

Multiple cropping is one of the management technologies that able to reduce risk in the use of dry felt for foodstuff crop. Multiple cropping also combines between diversification plantation and intensification.

The multiple cropping applies by the farmer into intercropping. Intercropping is planting in more than one kind of plant in adolescent age into classify raw when planting mutually in one field. Intercropping can increase productivity if the type of agricultural land and the type of crops combined mutually beneficial.

Taking apart on reduce the illegal logging, intercropping can be the selection way. Indonesia government's Forest and Field Department is having assistance with farmer who living around the conservation forest to plant corn on the sidelines of hard plant.

These programs get a positive impact in forest conservation and open the opportunity the economic side of the village around the forest. This is the mutual relationship in caring the forest from illegal logging by allocate people to exploit it as their own grassland but not disturb the tree.  

The plant has a significant meaning in the production plant. With this pattern means that the plant utilizes and combines various components that are available (macroclimate, soil, plants, pests and diseases, and socio-economic technique). But the type of selection or variety plant that need to be adjusted with the available water or rainfall.

Like other foodstuff plant, forest which grow by hard plant like wood also able to use as the field. On the sidelines, farmer can plant corn, cassava, peanut, young cassava or even rice. By cultivating the soil around the tree, the production field can add fertilize of the soil itself so that tree and food plant can grow in the same time without destroy the forest.

The gap in the main crop is to prevent erosion and improve soil prosperity, such as Lamtorogung, (which is resistant lice jump), Kaliandra, Gamal, Flemingia, but also grass-like herb Setaria, Hamilton, and Pineapple.

A system of land management in a frame of sustainability, improve the overall results of the land, combining plant production (including plant the trees) and forest plants and or animals simultaneously or sequentially in the same unit of land and implement ways of managing the appropriate with the local culture.

The appropriate system of reservation the forest will bring Indonesia furniture manufacturer well known around the world. The furniture industry in Indonesia can produce high quality of wood furniture.

For further information of furniture Indonesia please visit www.indonesia-furniturestore.com, the foremost wholesale furniture from Indonesia providing indoor wood furniture (living room, dining room and bathroom furniture).

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About the Author

Azizti Eka Santi is an online marketer on AQSA Living Company, Solo, Central Java, Indonesia. She maintains and manages URL of Indonesia furniture manufacturer. (www.indonesia-furniturestore.com)

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