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By: Gary

Gary — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 20:03:00 +0000

About as carbon neutral as a piece of coal. I hate eco-friendly, it is a misnomer. Environmentally sustainable materials and carbon neutral are not mutually exclusive. ESM just means something can be replanted or reused. Even more ESM would be to make it out of metal which is 100% recyclable. Make it out of old tin cans or soda cans; not only is that ESM but kinda kitch. Also, trees deplete the ground of nutrients needed to sustain plant life. So in cutting down 50 year old trees and planting new ones, you are depleting a region of its vital nutrients. Also when you mill a tree for products you release the CO2 that is stored in that tree back in to the enviroment. As far as carbon neutral, while I’m sure they get scrap ends of wood from some counter top makers or something the wood is still from Europe. As in it had to be shipped on a freighter or probably the wood goes from europe to china where they take huge pieces of wood and mill them down for one usb drive. It then gets sent to Norway or someplace to get engraved by Sven, then off to the america’s for distrabution. There is no carbon neutral! I have more but, back to work.

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Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:12:03 +0000

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