Daryl's Journal

What Happened Today? Feather Sound walk with Kay. Found 3 more Stuart Woods books at the Largo Library. Went to the Sunshine raceway. Robert Crisp won the Outlaw Late Model  race for the 17th time. Fun! New York Yankees lost  and are out of the playoffs. Arizona Diamondbacks lost and are out of the playoffs. Minnesota Twins won and are  now tied 2-2 with the Oakland Athletics. Atlanta Braves are still battling the San Francisco Giants.

GAIA- Planetary Management: 

326. Wood also serves a multitude of purposes as plywood, veneer, hardboard, particleboard, and clipboard.

327. It is competitive too, since substitutes such as steel, aluminum, cement, and plastics need more energy  in their production.

328. Furthermore, we use much wood in the form of paper– a key medium of civilization.

329. Having expanded by more than 50 percent since 1965, the world’s industrial timber harvest now amounts to 1.7 billion cubic meters per year.

330. An average American citizen uses more than twice as much wood as all metals together.

What Happened Today? Breakfast with Ray Crepeau. Sales are off to a good start for October. California Angels beat the New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics beat the Minnesota Twins. Kay and I went to AJ’s sports bar for dinner.

GAIA- Planetary Management:

321. Among the many goods supplied by forests, the principal is wood.

322. Wood serves many purposes.

323. It is one of the first raw materials that we use, and it is likely to be our last.

324. It plays a part in more activities of a modern economy than any other commodity, and almost every major industry depends on forest products in at least one of its processes.

325. A house wall built of wood requires about 20 percent less energy for heating and 30 percent less for cooling that a house made of other construction materials.