| There is a green movement in the country, it could be | | | | wood kitchen cabinets is one of two things. Solid wood |
| a case of too little too late, but at the least we are | | | | faced cabinets with paneled wood sides (these are |
| moving towards a nation that has a conscious about | | | | the good cabinets) or the lesser quality cabinet that is |
| destroying the environment. The green movement has | | | | a wood front and a particle board side (places like |
| caught on with many groups and has become | | | | Home Depot and Lowe's sell these inferior cabinets). |
| fashionable in some industries. The home building or | | | | Now that you have a definition of what really is a |
| home improvement industry is no exception. Many | | | | wood kitchen cabinet, you can then ask where I find |
| construction companies, home improvement centers | | | | these solid wood cabinets with paneled sides. The |
| and building products advertise some level of | | | | very best, easiest, and least expensive method to |
| commitment towards "green" or environmentally | | | | buying these cabinets is actually online. Yes, the |
| friendly construction. Are these companies actually | | | | internet cabinet websites easily beat any retail prices. |
| fulfilling their promises? That is a discussion for another | | | | (Mostly because of less over head). |
| day What we want to focus on is how a wood | | | | Finally, how am I saving the environment, if I am buying |
| kitchen cabinet can help you become environmentally | | | | wood kitchen cabinets? The trick to saving money and |
| friendly. | | | | the environment is the RTA kitchen cabinet. It is not a |
| Everyone should want to reduce their "carbon | | | | brand name, but rather a style of cabinet. RTA stands |
| footprint". This carbon footprint is roughly defined as | | | | for "ready to assemble". These cabinets are about |
| the amount of CO2 that you, as a living person, put | | | | thirty to forty percent less than an assembled cabinet |
| into the environment each day. It can be everyday | | | | and they are actually helping to cut down carbon |
| activities like driving a car, running an air conditioner, or | | | | emissions and save lumber. These all wood RTA |
| building a house. Almost everything you do has a | | | | kitchen cabinets use the entire tree, thus cutting waste. |
| connection to the environment, be it direct or incidental. | | | | Furthermore, these cabinets save space on shipping. |
| Taking products and using them is basically us being | | | | They are unassembled so they take up to fifty |
| consumers and from this consumption we are taking | | | | percent less space. This "space savings" contributes |
| from nature. This then creates pressure on the | | | | to less shipping; this produces less carbon dioxide. You |
| environment. | | | | may say that does not seem like much, but when you |
| So again, if I am building a house or renovating my | | | | add up the number of shipments, this becomes a huge |
| kitchen, how do wood kitchen cabinets help lower my | | | | amount of carbon dioxide that is kept out of the |
| carbon footprint? The first thing is to define a "wood | | | | atmosphere. |
| kitchen cabinet". Unless you're living in the nineteenth | | | | So in the end, every little bit helps. Yes buying wood |
| century, you're probably not going to see a solid wood | | | | kitchen cabinets, especially RTA kitchen cabinets will |
| cabinet. It is not economical and it just does not make | | | | help the environment. Now all we have to do is get |
| sense in the building industry. What you are getting in | | | | everyone to do their own small part. |