[MCN] How might the Forest Service help with affordable homes? 3 workable ideas?

[Lance Olsen]

Give some preference to roundwood sales for end-use only within 100 miles, minimizing energy burned and carbon added to atmosphere for transportation. Express in terms of time-span sustainability of this kind of harvest strategy.

Give some preference to roundwood sales leading directly to roundwood construction, minimizing energy burned and carbon added for milling. Express in terms of time-span sustainability of this kind of harvest strategy.

Give some preference to roundwood sales leading to construction of smaller, more affordable homes - not just purchase-price affordability but also less expensive to heat and cool as conditions take their course. Consider lifetime of carbon that will be kept sequestered in roundwood used this way. Express in terms of time-span sustainability of this kind of harvest strategy.

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Explicitly define community stability/economic sustainability/jobs sustainability in terms of time-span. For example, display whether some cumulative set of actions adds up to 1,000 rank and file jobs lasting 10 years or 100 rank and file jobs lasting 10,000 years. That's an extreme example, but it gets to what everybody already knows - that we aren't talking seriously about sustainability, or community stability - if we aren't making the time-span explicit.
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“Our results suggest that, globally, a third of oil reserves, half of gas reserves and over 80 per cent of current coal reserves 

should remain unused from 2010 to 2050 in order to meet the target of 2C.”

Christophe McGlade & Paul Ekins. The geographical distribution of fossil fuels unused when limiting global warming to 2C. 

Nature. January 8 2015

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"… the race between climate dynamics and  climate policy will be a close one ….” and 
“ … requires an industrial revolution for sustainability starting now."

Hans Joachim Schellenhuber.“Global warming: Stop worrying, start panicking?”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. September 23, 2008

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“ Getting from here to there would require a massive economic shift.” 

Rachel Pannett and Jeffrey Ball. “Australia Approves Energy Bill.”  

The Wall Street Journal  p.A7, August 21, 2009


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