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There must be a box to check when you sign up for VIP member status to ‘not’ receive emails, I don’t recall ever receiving an unsolicited email from this site..
In a round-about way I think your industry and the logging and clearcutting issue are connected like almost everything is. The wood that you are getting such a smoking deal on is coming from increasingly larger scale, more mechanized, and often environmentally questionable forestry practices. The same could be said for food production and agri-business and the death of family farms. The cheaper food is great for processors but not so for family farms and the average consumer eating the crap they are puking out.
I like Scott’s plan, hire locals, use local techniques that are proven to work in that area, pay what you are comfortable paying, and do it without accumulating great debt as the average North American consumer at least used to do.The other thing to consider is private land logging, in ‘most’ cases in the last fifteen years or so logging practices all over BC have improved dramatically – and they needed to. But not so on private land, there are many restrictions on public land (the majority of land in BC) which do not exist for private land owners. I don’t think in the pacific northwest or much of BC that a 30 year rotation will yield anything but pulp wood, maybe in Costa Rica! Victoria’s sewage system is an embarrassment, but there are other places in Canada and probably the US still doing the same thing unfortunately. I think a bigger problem facing pacific salmon these days are the proliferation of Atlantic salmon fish farms which are all owned by large multi nationals that have destroyed salmon fisheries already every else they have set up shop. If you guys eat Salmon make sure it’s wild!
Logging is never pretty grb1063, but that’s where lumber comes from. Unlike many countries we here in Canada replant all our harvested areas, unlike most of Scotland and Britain which has been largely turned into one big (and beautiful) sheep pasture.
This issue is analogous to people moving to rural areas within their own country. People try it for a while, with the big garden, animals, wood heat, etc, but the conveniences of the urban life are difficult to leave behind and most return.
Only the ones who have really thought about what they are giving up as well as gaining by making a move such as this will stick it out.
For me a move to an urban area would be much the same as I have always lived a rural life.Does anyone have any experience with Scotiabank in Costa Rica? I have transferred money from a Scotiabank in Canada to a branch in Costa Rica and it worked really well. I was just wondering if a person could have a Canadian based account with them and have a CR account with one of their branches there. Moving money around could be done on the internet potentially too.
I think someone mentioned this before on this site, but there is a product known as Tim Bor which can be applied to wood which will fight insects and rots. I have never used it personally but they appear to be using it in tropical climates with success.
Anybody out there used it successfully?
The website below is just the first place that came up on a google search that sells it.The small USB plug in style you speak about don’t actually connect to satellites, they generally piggy back on cellular signals and in my experience are not really that fast -usually about 3 to 5 times the speed of dial up. I live in a rural area in Canada which is probably comparable to many areas in Costa Rica in terms of internet availability.
Is it common for the ‘average’ hard working american with no education to make his first million by the age of forty working as a physical labourer/tradesman/business owner?
Is it possible to only have a ‘socialist’ or ‘capitalist’ society at opposite ends of the spectrum? Is Obama going to convert the US into a socialist society or is he going to employ limited socialist ideals where they will improve the situation for the average person. You can’t dismiss socialism as something that does not work anywhere – that is just simply not true. It seems to me extremes of anything never work well for long.
I have often wondered if there would be a way to keep termites out of a tropical house by employing a ‘moat’ of sorts. Will they cross water? Or do they require a branch or solid pathway to get to their lunch? Could you have concrete piers with water filled rings around them part way up which could restrict the upward movement of pests? Still have the problem of mould, but there must be a way to deal with that..
Do ‘similar’ climate areas like Florida rely on concrete block construction or do they use wood as we do up here? Thanks for you comments so far..
try, http://www.verdemar.com , we stayed there for a week, nice and clean, affordable, quiet, and right on the beach!
