{"id":57,"date":"2007-06-01T15:45:53","date_gmt":"2007-06-01T13:45:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/wordpress\/?p=57"},"modified":"2007-06-01T15:45:53","modified_gmt":"2007-06-01T13:45:53","slug":"meranti-wood-a-little-bit-of-ancient-forest-in-your-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/?p=57","title":{"rendered":"Meranti wood – a little bit of ancient forest in your house?"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m looking at getting a new wooden gate installed. One of the suppliers I contacted had a large ad offering meranti<\/em> gates.<\/p>\n

I know little about wood, just that meranti is quite sought after, but something rang a bell about meranti. I was interested in where meranti comes from, whether it’s a sustainably harvested, or whether buyers are effectively chopping down the rainforest for their garden furniture.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, meranti is one of the woods that Greenpeace<\/a> suggests avoiding at all costs<\/a> (note – the link is annoying Flash file, noisy, and difficult to navigate) as it’s almost entirely harvested unsustainably from the South-East Asian tropical forests.<\/p>\n

Meranti wood isn’t yet quite up there with 4×4’s and McDonalds<\/a> as things you can do to destroy the planet in the awareness of most people, but I’m sure that can change soon \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Tags: meranti<\/a> sustainable+harvesting<\/a> wood<\/a> tropical rain forest<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m looking at getting a new wooden gate installed. One of the suppliers I contacted had a large ad offering meranti gates. I know little about wood, just that meranti is quite sought after, but something rang a bell about meranti. I was interested in where meranti comes from, whether it’s a sustainably harvested, or… Continue reading Meranti wood – a little bit of ancient forest in your house?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fire-social","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greenman.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}