
Sustainability
The Tasmanian Timber industry has come a long way in the last 50 years. From harvesting somewhere in the region of 1 million cubic metres of timber each year in the early 1970s, Tasmania now produces only 127,000 cube across the entire state – becoming a boutique industry with a sharp focus on sustainability and quality over quantity.
The links below explore the topics of Carbon, Certification, Chain of Custody, Minimising Waste, Forest Management, The Forest Practices System and why it is important to Buy Local. The Original Thinkers Podcast also features episodes discussing these topics with both Australian and International experts.
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Director Emeritus of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research in his 2020 article in Nature Sustainability, said:
Trees offer us a technology of unparalleled perfection. They take CO2 out of our atmosphere and smoothly transform it into oxygen for us to breathe and carbon in their trunks for us to use. There’s no safer way of storing carbon I can think of. Societies have made good use of wood for buildings for many centuries, yet now the challenge of climate stabilization calls for a very serious upscaling. If we engineer the wood into modern building materials and smartly manage harvest and construction, we humans can build ourselves a safe home on Earth.
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