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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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