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NATURAL MATERIALS MAKE STEADFAST THE HEALTHY CHOICE FOR ENVIRONMENTALLY RESPONSIBLE HOMEBUILDING
Concrete … The Natural Building Material
In this age of vanishing resources, we must choose our building materials wisely. Concrete draws upon earth's most common and abundant minerals for its raw materials. The amount of land used to extract the materials needed to make a STEADFAST Home is only a fraction of that used to grow and harvest our forests for timber.
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Built To Last (Saving Our Environment)
Timber rots, decays, and is extremely susceptible to natural disasters, it is central to a wasteful construction cycle of frequent disposal and replacement with a high environmental price tag. In addition to depleting forests, nasty chemicals are used to preserve timber. These chemicals are harmful to the environment and have been known to cause health problems for some. A STEADFAST System is resistant to borer, rust and rot without the need for toxic chemical treatments. Concrete's durability over decades of use goes a long way towards waste reduction.
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-Superior Insulation with Steadfast
Up to 25% of all Global CO2 emissions are from using fossil fuels to heat and cool our homes and buildings
STEADFAST Homes are more energy efficient than light-weight framed homes and therefore require less energy to heat and cool.
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 Steadfast, as tree huggers, makes a conscious effort in minimizing the use of wood. We need to replenish our wood supply before it can become sustainable. This valuable natural resource is best for climate change if it is left standing, living and absorbing CO2.
Deforestation crisis-
What the world is saying
 In the next 24 hours, deforestation will release as much CO2 into the atmosphere as 8 million people flying from London to New York. Stopping the loggers is the fastest and cheapest solution to climate change.
By Daniel Howden Headline, the Independent
Tahorakuri Forest, NZ
Emissions from deforestation are very significant globally. Independent estimates of the annual emissions from deforestation are put at more than 18% of global greenhouse gas emissions, greater than that produced by the whole of the global transport sector. These emissions could potentially be cut significantly fairly quickly – no new technology has to be developed.
Extract from chapter 25 of the STERN Review - The Economics of Climate Change
 The Climate Bomb is ticking -- Call for Zero Deforestation to Protect the Climate
-Greenpeace
The Real CO2 Emissions from Timber
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The earth’s vegetation and soils currently contain 7500 Gt CO21the equivalent of almost more carbon than that contained in all remaining oil stocks2, and more than double the total amount of carbon currently accumulated in the atmosphere. The carbon presently locked up in forest ecosystems alone is greater than the amount of carbon in the atmosphere3.
Plants and trees play a vital role in carbon sequestration. This is the natural process whereby living plants and trees remove carbon from the atmosphere through photosynthesis as they grow. Some of this is transferred to the soil through the roots and as leaves fall. But when soils are disturbed through ploughing or trees are cut down, the stored carbon oxidizes and escapes back into the atmosphere as CO2.
 While planting new trees is an excellent long-term policy, trees take decades to absorb the equivalent amount of carbon to that which is instantaneously released into the atmosphere when mature trees are cut down and burnt. Depending on the species, a tree may take 100 years to reach maturity, and much more land would have to be allocated for new forests to obtain the same amount of carbon absorption as would be released from burning an existing forest of mature trees. The biodiversity and other co-benefits of new forests are also likely to be much lower than those for natural forests. For these reasons, international support for action to protect existing forests should be kept distinct from the creation of new forest, through the latter is also important.
STERN Review - The Economics of Climate Change
Concrete- Co2 factsheet
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