[Greenbuilding] "Ecoshel" anyone?

[Tim Vireo Keating]

Dear Matt,

I would avoid this like the plague on the planet that I suspect it 
is. Their website mentions "the highest quality Western red cedar 
shingles", which, to me, sounds like (and looks like, from the photo) 
clear (read: "old-growth") WRC. I have personally seen a shingle 
factory turning 1000+-year-old trees into shingles. The trees are 
currently coming from British Columbia, since almost all of the 
old-growth WRC has been logged out from the US Northwest.

I don't see anything "eco" about Ecoshel (which sounds like a shell 
game, to me). The rhetoric on the site's "Green Building" page is a 
load of crap about the wonders of wood - without any mention of what 
kind of logging is taking place to produce it. I have heard and read 
it all too many times before and it ignores the reality of the loss 
of primary and old-growth forests due to over-demand for wood.

tim keating

At 9:51 AM -0400 6/17/11, Matt Dirksen wrote:
>Hello friends,
>
>Does anyone have any experience with "Ecoshel" cedar shingle system? 
>I am looking at pro's and con's of this, and trying to compare it 
>with Hardi's shake or Nichiha's premium shake plus.
>
>thoughts? suggestions?
>
>much appreciated.
>
>Matt
>
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