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Bush on the Environment
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Temperature Rising
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State of the World 2002
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Environment : Heart Craft and Environment

In regards to environment, the most important aspect of Heart Craft's innovative contribution is its practical and profitable environmental conservation. Environmentally prioritized construction, "Green", when done right is financially profitable "Green". So remember "Green is Green"TM A case in point: Petra AAC and Heart Craft Homes will be major contributors in the reduction of Global Warming while improving the quality of the construction industry! Heart Craft Homes itself has the potential to single handedly become the most significant reducer of Global Warming in the United States!

Currently, every conventional house built is ecologically very costly. How costly? A "picture is worth a thousand words": (Click "Clear-Cut" picture to read article)

So, just how "green" are Heart Craft Homes? First, we simply are the best there is. (Note: The following statement is not an exaggeration and is substantiated later in the sustainable logging section) Taking the positive effects of each Heart Craft house over ten years facilitating the production of 232 tons of fresh oxygen and removing 290 tons of CO2 from the atmosphere by saving forests, this would mean if every new house built in nation was a Heart Craft home, 185,600,000 (185 MILLION) tons of oxygen would be produced and 232,000,000 (232 MILLION) tons of CO2 would be removed from the atmosphere and this figure does not include all the reduction of upstream CO2 created by wood processing industry! And this does not even include all the other environmental advantages of Heart Craft Homes, such as reduced energy required, environmentally green materials, etc.!

While we humans do build truly wonderful homes, we are the only creatures in God's creation which cause so much unnecessary ecological havoc and destruction in creating a habitat. While the rest of the members of the animal kingdom compliment nature with their homes, we really do seriously tear up our planet. Please do not think this is tree hugging, extremist lingo, for while our company founder and president is a developer and builder, he also served as a minister at Glacier National Park in Montana, and can often be found (or lost!) in the woods. The facts are science has proven that our planet earth is the only habitable planet within 1,000's of light years. The fact is there simply is no other place for us to go if we destroy this planet; and despite its seemingly overwhelming size, the earth has a fragile ecosystem. We spend billions exploring space and very little to preserve our planet. We really must start acting more responsibly with our God entrusted natural resources. When President Bush is willing to alienate his industrial supporters and take a stand for the ecology you know Global warming is a very serious situation.

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Further advice can be obtained from the contributing writer for this chapter of Waitakere City's Sustainable Home Guidelines: Reinhard Kanuka-Fuchs, ANZIA, architect and director of the Building Biology and Ecology Institute of New Zealand. PO BOX 35 921, Browns Bay, North Shore City