Natural building is the process of building and using materials with an emphasis on sustainability. The goal of natural building is to have a smaller environmental impact whilst still creating comfortable, functional homes. Emphasis is placed on suiting the location and building through the power of human labor instead of technology. Materials should be minimally processed, locally available and renewable or they could be recycled or salvaged.
Sustainable materials are available, we just need to think carefully about what we use and how much. The Rainforest Alliance is working hard to encourage sustainable Forestry.
Forests also provide fuel for cooking and warmth, medicinal plants, food, wildlife habitat, clean water, spiritual and cultural touchstones, and for many, the means to earn a living. Approximately 70 percent of terrestrial animals and plants make their homes in forests, while more than 25 percent of the world’s people—nearly 1.6 billion—rely on forest resources for their livelihoods, with 1.2 billion of them using trees to generate food and cash. The economic value of these ecosystem services has been estimated at $33 trillion per year, twice the GDP of the United States.
-Rainforest-Alliance.org
https://www.rainforest-alliance.org/articles/what-is-sustainable-forestry
The Rainforest Alliances’s methods for sustainable forestry have already proven successful on nearly half a billion acres around the world.
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