Reducing Carbon Footprint with Redwood

Follow us on Twitter at http://twitter.com/GetRedwood - In this video: Reducing carbon footprint and lowering greenhouses gases with Redwood is discussed with Mike Jani at Mendocino and Humboldt Redwood.

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Mike Jani, President, Chief Forester

"The nice thing when you think about carbon sequestration in terms of forest growth that a redwood has to offer, is that it's such a tremendously long-growing tree. Unlike all other conifers, a Redwood tree can grow for thousands of years and continue to sequester carbon that long and store it in its trunk. Especially when a tree is young, it's pulling out a lot of carbon in out of the atmosphere and putting it into wood in the form of a tree. And at some point when we decide to harvest that wood, then the carbon that is stored in that wood gets put down as decks or used as siding and it still is stored as carbon in wood products."

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Science & Technology

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• Redwood
• reducing carbon footprint
• reducing greenhouse gases
• mike jani
• humboldt redwood
• mendocino
• carbon footprint
• green
• environment
• environmental
• global warming
• climate
• climate change

[GetRedwood]

Yes, cars are one source of carbon emissions along with other motorized vehicles and manufacturing operations to name a few. Trees, especially redwood trees and redwood lumber products make a great carbon sink (i.e. they hold the carbon).

[humanbeing524]

They are pulling out carbon dioxide from the cars exhaust pipes, for example?