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Aleurites fordii
(List and Horhammer, 19691979). Description Trees up to 12 m tall and wide, bark smooth, wood soft; leaves dark green, up to 15 cm wide, heart-shaped, sometimes lobed, appearing usually just ... other species of Aleurites are used to produce tung-oil, usually of low quality. Aleurites cordata, Japanese wood-oil tree; A. moluccana, Candlenut or lumbang tree; A. trisperma, Soft Lumbang tree; none of ...
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Japan's Timber Trade and Forestry
The cheap price, however, does not include environmental costs. During this period Japanese wood production has decreased one third, and the number of forestry workers has fallen to ... weeding, cleaning cutting, thinning and pruning is needed for plantation management. However, demand for domestic wood is low and maintenance such as thinning is not put into practice. The result is ...
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Columbidae Conservation: helping save the world's pigeons and doves (Columbidae)
Laurel Pigeon Columba trocaz NT Dark-tailed Laurel Pigeon Columba bollii NT Comoro Olive-pigeon Columba pollenii NT White-naped Pigeon Columba albinucha NT Andaman Wood-pigeon Columba palumboides NT Japanese Wood-pigeon Columba janthina NT White-crowned Pigeon Patagioenas leucocephala NT Plain Pigeon Patagioenas inornata NT White-winged Collared-dove Streptopelia reichenowi NT Andaman Cuckoo-dove ...
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WELL - Resource Centre Network for Water, Sanitation and Environmental Health
Japan: Sumida City (part of Tokyo) and several other Japanese cities are also using rainwater sources inside the city boundary to restore the regional water ... may have a serious cost implication. While there are experiences of using 'appropriate' materials such as wood, bamboo and basket work as alternatives to steel for making concrete tanks, these have had ...
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Restoration Round-up (Do or Die)
The vision is then to regain the original matrix of grassland, heathland, wood pasture, wet alder woods and mossy mires - making up a natural complex with Bowdown and ... created - and in Lewisham, a hardy cosmopolitan mix of Loquat, Chinese Quince, Asian Pear, Olive, Japanese Pepper, Tea Plant and Cork Oak, corresponding to a multicultural community. The list of activities ...
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The Rainwater Harvesting Community :: HarvestH2O.com
Probably not. Fortunately, for people who wish to transcend function for form, there is another option. Rain chains ('Kusari doi' in Japanese) offer a highly attractive and unique alternative to traditional downspouts to harvest rainwater. more >> Local Pioneer: Billy Kniffen - The 2 1/2 Minute Shower Man by Doug Pushard When Billy Kniffen and ...
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Books from the Earth Policy Institute
Earth by Lester R. Brown Farsi edition awarded Best Nonfiction book by the Peka Institute (Iran) Japanese edition rated the #1 translation by Asahi Shimbun "...an instant classic." E.O. Wilson Only $16. ... all paper comes from paper recycling mills. If the entire world were to achieve this rate, wood needed for pulp production would drop by nearly one third." In describing the transition to the ...
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EcoIQ Magazine Spring 2002 Features
Machines multiply the worker's muscle; kaizen rediscovers the value of the worker's mind. According to management consultant Masaaki Imai, "Kaizen strategy is the single most important concept in Japanese management - the key to Japanese competitive success." Today, Ford Motor Company is also applying the lessons of kaizen. Chairman and CEO William Clay Ford, Jr.'s strategy is to make Ford a " ...
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WebMuseum: Japanese Prehistory
They built simple houses of wood and thatch set into shallow earthen pits to provide warmth from the soil, and crafted ... bells (dotaku), and wheel-thrown, kiln-fired ceramics. Kofun Art: Haniwa The third stage in Japanese prehistory, the Kofun, or Tumulus, period (circa AD 250-552), represents a modification of Yayoi ...
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Five Japanese Environmental NGOs issue 'Joint NGO Recommendation on Ecologically Ethical Wood Products Procurement'
Five Japanese Environmental NGOs issue 'Joint NGO Recommendation on Ecologically Ethical Wood Products Procurement' Press Release February 20, 2006 Five Japanese Environmental NGOs issue 'Joint NGO Recommendation on Ecologically Ethical Wood Products Procurement' A group of five environmental NGOs - Greenpeace Japan, Friends of the Earth Japan, WWF Japan, Global Environmental Forum, and Japan ...
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