Sustainable living refers to a specific lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual's or society's use of the Earth's natural resources. Practitioners of sustainable living often attempt to reduce their carbon footprints by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet.[1] Proponents of sustainable and ecological living aim to conduct their lives in manners that are consistent with sustainability, in natural balance and respectful of humanity's symbiotic relationship with the Earth's natural ecology and cycles.[2] The practice and general philosophy of ecological living is highly interrelated with the overall principles of sustainable development. By minimizing their "ecological footprints" -- the extent to which they create an environmental impact -- proponents of ecological living hope to preserve the Earth for future generations of human beings and other life
Promoting Wood Fuel
Why Promote Wood Fuel?
Using wood as a fuel has a number of benefits. Firstly, contrary to what many people think burning wood can be environmentally beneficial. Much of the woodland in the UK is semi-natural woodland and benefits from being managed. Secondly, providing the wood comes from a sustainable source, wood is a source of renewable energy. Using wood as a fuel also benefits the rural economy by providing local employment and an opportunity for diversification for farmers and other landowners.
The Environmental Benefits
The woodland that exists today in the UK does so because it had a use, and thus a value to their owners. They were managed, mostly using coppice systems, to provide fuels and other materials, mainly for local use. The eco-systems that exist in those woods today depend on continuing management for their continued survival.
Many of these woodlands, especially the smaller ones, are no longer managed because they no longer provide any economic benefit to their owners. Continued neglect is not an option for these woodlands. They are managed systems, which require continuing management, if they are to be sustainable. Extracting firewood and other wood from them is one way to ensure that they are managed (because there are economic benefits in doing so
Wood Fired Central Heating.
The Only Way Fore ward
What is a boiler?
A wood burning boiler gives off its heat to your radiators in exactly the same way as an oil-fired one.
. In this it differs from a wood burning stove, which only gives off its heat to the room it is in.
Inother words a solid fuel burning boiler can heat your whole house and provide hot water.
Never buy a boiler that is bigger than you need. For a single family home, a hand-fired wood burning boiler is usually the best and most economical investment.
In larger places such as farms the saving from burning wood is often so great that it pays to install an automatic stoker unit burning wood pellets.