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High Quality American Created Furniture Vs Low Cost Imported Furnishings - Secrets And Techniques You Need To Know
Can you believe of something you acquire these days that costs about 50 percent as a lot because it did thirty a long time in the past? Wood furnishings does. Yes, think it or not, thirty years ago there was a incredibly beneficial opportunity that if you bought wooden furnishings, it might have already been hand produced in America by North Carolina's expert craftspeople utilizing reliable, locally harvested wood. And it might have already been priced accordingly.
Not currently. People in america have unwittingly become addicted to affordable imported furniture more than the past few decades. You've noticed it at Ashley Furniture and Bob's Low cost. A 10 piece eating set for $399.00, correct? But the earth is spending a high price for our short-term furnishings discounts.
Why is Imported Furniture So Inexpensive?
The unwashed fact is the fact that inexpensive imported furniture is frequently produced from illegally harvested lumber which has been clear-cut through the world's quickly disappearing rainforests. As soon as minimize, the stolen logs are transported by way of the rainforest and loaded onto ships headed for that sweatshops of China and Southeast Asia exactly where they will be milled and fashioned into low cost, minimal quality goods often called "curbside furniture". The items will in turn be shipped towards the US, Europe and China to fulfill consumers' insatiable desire for low-cost furniture.
Because the US furniture market has disintegrated, Vietnam, for instance has witnessed a ten-fold improve in their furniture business because 2000. China's furniture production statistics are even much more amazing. But what exactly is the environmental and social cost of these low-cost furnishings imports we're clambering to get?
Environmental and Social Expenses of Low-cost Furnishings Imports
In Laos, a country which has been plundered for its timber using the help of corrupt federal government officials, the cost of our low cost furnishings is borne by bad rural communities who are dependent around the forests for his or her traditional livelihoods. Illegal logging leaves the indigenous individuals and animals of these communities homeless and without having a sustainable strategy for the future-- an altogether as well common outcome from the illegal timber trade throughout the world.
The reduction of rain forests also threatens some of our most iconic species such as the tiger, Malaysian Sun Bear, the Asian Elephant, and the Clouded Leopard to not mention the a large number of amphibians, reptiles, birds, insects, and plants which are endemic to the very same forests. Deforestation also leads to erosion and flooding, and results inside the addition of enormous quantities of carbon dioxide in to the atmosphere, worsening local weather alter. It truly is currently believed that twenty percent from the world's annual carbon emissions comes from illegal tropical rain forest destruction.
You may Aid Stop Illegal Logging and Rainforest Destruction
Shopping for furniture? Remain away from your low-cost imported furnishings you'll come across in stores like with Pottery Barn, Target, Sears - K Mart and WalMart. The ultimate responsibility for rainforest destruction rests largely with us, the customers within the US, Japan, Germany, France and China. The US is undoubtedly the worst offender: in 2007 the US imported 930 million bucks well worth of Vietnamese furnishings, nicely more than a 3rd of Vietnamese complete furnishings exports. Our countries require to clean up their act and shut our markets to illegal wood products or even the loss of valuable tropical forests will go on unabated.
Consider Action
Help stop rainforest destruction. Petition your elected officials to adopt national laws to prohibit illegally harvested wood from getting into our markets. Acquire high quality American created furnishings that's handcrafted inside the USA from local, sustainably harvested wood. You many pay a little much more for it at the money register, but odds are you'll be able to get pleasure from it within your loved ones for generations. And you'll in no way need to substitute it or put it out around the curbside.
By buying sustainable American made furnishings, you'll be doing your part for your all-natural planet, though beautifying the atmosphere of your very own living space.
Part 1 - Pink Elephant Antique Mall - Roadside Attraction in Livingston IL
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USA #93 ELEPHANT RIDER COLORFUL POTTERY PLANTER $5.00 |
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Handpainted Pottery Elephant Handled Pitcher Austria? $34.95 |
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Blue Elephant Pottery Ceramic Modern Presento Prazsky Graz Austria Blau Elefant $20.40 |
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McCoy Pink Elephant Small Pottery Planter $35.00 |
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Vintage CCC pottery Elephant RARE and MINT !!! $85.00 |
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Vintage Blue Mountain Pottery huge male elephant RARE !!! $74.95 |
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Brazil elephant pottery $3.00 |
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VINTAGE TRENTON POTTERY TRINKETS VASE ELEPHANT PIG DOG HORSE - Some marked USA $18.99 |
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VINTAGE 1950'S FREEMAN MCFARLIN POTTERY ELEPHANT $34.50 |
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Vintage Shawnee Art Pottery Planter/Elephant w/Basket on Back/USA RARE $12.99 |
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Vintage Porcelain Elephant ~ Royal Art Pottery ~ Made In England $6.98 |
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Vintage Elephant Rio Hondo Pottery Figurine Planter California Art Pottery CUTE $5.45 |
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Henry Mercer Moravian Pottery & Tile Bucks County Elephant 1980 Exc $9.99 |
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Vintage Prince Hamlet California Pottery Airbrushed Plate Pink Elephants & Drunk $19.99 |
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Vtg Hand Made & Painted POTTERY ELEPHANT w/ Enameled Brass Howdah Saddle: Signed $113.99 |
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Rare Vintage Block Pottery Rocking Elephant Hand Made in California $4.99 |
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Vintage 40s/50s ELEPHANT Pottery Planter~DARLING $8.50 |
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Vintage Pottery Blue Elephant Planter, Trunk Up. $6.99 |
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Vintage Ceramic / Pottery Elephant Buck FREE SHIPPING $22.00 |
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Art Pottery Hand Crafted Stylized Decorative Elephant Pot / Planter or Vase $6.99 |
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Niloak Pottery Ozark Dawn Glaze Elephant...Looong Trunk $34.75 |
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Older Elephant & Tree Stump Pottery Planter Green Felt Bottom $12.50 |
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Vtg 2 Yellow Green Pottery Elephants Figurine Japan $59.99 |
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Adorable Vintage American Pottery Elephant Planter $8.95 |
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Canadian Art Pottery Elephant Figurine $29.99 |
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Blue Mountain Pottery Miniture Green Elephant With Sticker Attached $12.99 |
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Blue Mountain Pottery Canadian Trumpeting Elephant Blue Green Glaze $9.99 |
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Vintage Paul Genter Pottery Ohio Elephant Ashtray $8.95 |
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Vintage Pottery Blue and Black Elephant Potpouri Melting Dish FANTASTIC!! $9.99 |
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Rookwood Art Pottery 1922 Elephant Trunk Down Bookend 2444C $155.00 |
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Lot of 3 White Pottery Animal Figurines / Deer Pig and Elephant $0.99 |
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Polmedia Polish Pottery New Stoneware elephant figurine from Boleslawiec $16.18 |
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Vintage 1930'S BUSH McCOY Pink Elephant Planter Little Girl Marked USA Pottery $19.99 |
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ABINGDON POTTERY #509 Elephant Ashtray Excellent Condition! $75.00 |
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OLD MAJOLICA POTTERY ELEPHANT PLANTER marked AUSTRIA $7.99 |
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2 Canadiana Pottery Canada Elephant Bookends Orange Flame Glaze $39.99 |
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Vintage Cookie Jar Shawnee Pottery, Circus Elephant, 40s - 50s crazing estate NR $42.00 |
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Medalta Potteries, Elephant Planter in Yellow $19.95 |
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CarltonWare ELEPHANT shaped SMALL TEAPOT cream 1970s Carlton Ware Lustre Pottery $19.65 |
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Van Briggle Pottery Blue Elephant Figurine $20.00 |
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Vintage Blue Mountain Art Pottery ELEPHANT Figurine Canada BLUE Ceramic LARGE nr $9.98 |
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CANUCK/EVANGELINE POTTERY ORANGE DRIP ELEPHANT 7" from trunk to tail and 41/2"h $14.99 |
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Vintage Shawnee pottery Smiling elephant planter, Great condition ! $1.99 |
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vintage heager pottery elephant retro 1950s figurine ceramic $12.50 |
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Shawnee Pottery Elephant Creamer $39.00 |
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Charming Old Pottery Sitting Elephants Planter Nicodemus ? $19.95 |
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VINTAGE MODGLIN LOS ANGELES PINK ELEPHANT LULU MODGLIN'S ART POTTERY $9.99 |
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Albert Hodge Folk Pottery Sculpture: Elephant $150.00 |
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Vintage 1939 Brush McCoy Pottery Yellow Glazed Elephant Planter $25.15 |
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Hyalyn Art Deco Art Pottery Elephant Figurine $9.99 |
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Art Pottery USA Figural ELEPHANT Mini PLANTER Cache Baby Nursery Decor Cute $29.95 |
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ELEPHANT SPRINKLING CONTAINER: Handpainted Pottery, Modeled after Vint Ohio Art $14.99 |
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Unusual Signed Asian Stoneware Pottery Elephant Train Sculpture Bowl Stamped $12.00 |
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100% CHARITY ELEPHANT Vintage California Pottery Planter 1940's SHABBY CHIC ROSE $12.99 |
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Monterey Jade Style Studio Pottery Elephant Trunk Up $9.99 |
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MADE IN JAPAN POTTERY LUSTRE ELEPHANT CACHE PLANTER $8.00 |
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ND ROSEMEADE POTTERY ELEPHANT PLANTER TAN $65.50 |
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12 DeLee De Lee Art Pottery Figurines Happy elephant Lucky Daisy Dude Panchita $299.00 |
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Vintage Francoma Pottery 1976 "DEM Donkey" & "GOP Elephant" Ceramic Mugs $20.00 |
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ELEPHANT PLANTER HULL POTTERY NO MARK $45.00 |
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Dedham Pottery The Potting Shed - Cute Tea Bag Holder with Elephant $4.99 |
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Mexican Pottery Elephant Figure Figurine Blue Brown $18.99 |
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VINTAGE SHAWNEE ART POTTERY ELEPHANT PLANTER $9.99 |
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VINTAGE ELEPHANT PLANTER LOS ANGELES POTTERY PRYDE & JOY STUFFED TOY LOOK BABY $189.00 |
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ANTIQUE, VINTAGE McCOY WHITE ELEPHANT POTTERY PLANTER $34.99 |
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NICE VINTAGE FRANKOMA POTTERY TAN GRAY 1978 GOP POLICTICAL ELEPHANT MUG/CUP $15.00 |
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ANTIQUE POTTERY ELEPHANT CREAM PITCHER GILT TRIM $29.96 |
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RARE Rinjani Pottery Handcrafted Elephant Display Plate $135.00 |
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8 1/2" Noah's Ark Homemade? Ceramic Plate Pottery Giraffe, Elephant, Dove, Bunny $5.99 |
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Frankoma Pottery 1984 GOP Election Elephant Mug $15.00 |
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Frankoma Pottery 1986 GOP Election Elephant Mug $15.00 |
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PAIR BLUE MOUNTAIN POTTERY MINI ELEPHANTS 11109 $21.39 |
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Elephant candle holders/Nice pottery/Dusty Aqua $4.50 |
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Blue Mountain Pottery Elephant Figurine Green BMP $29.99 |
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Signed EW 164 Dep Pottery 2 Elephant Candlesticks $34.99 |
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VINTAGE POTTERY PURPLE ELEPHANT BABY SMILING FIGURE $125.00 |
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LARGE vintage ORIENTAL ACCENTS BOWL Elephant ART POTTERY Animals $59.95 |
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Polish Pottery Baby Elephant Ornament 155 Manufaktura $12.25 |
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Frankoma GOP Republican Elephant 1990 Pottery Cup Mug $14.99 |
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Frankoma GOP Republican Elephant 1984 Pottery Cup Mug $14.99 |
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One (1) MARA STONEWARE COLLECTION - 16 Ounce Coffee Cup Collectible Mug - Elephant Design $19.50 This Mara Stoneware Collection Mug is for ONE mug only and holds a capacity of 16 ounces and would make a wonderful gift to give or receive on any occasion. Each piece has been fired twice at high temperatures and they are completely finished by hand. Natural variations in the shape, color and etched designs give each piece a unique personality. Use these beautiful, whimsical and durable wares for... |
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Artistically designed dinnerware parrots motif salad / dessert / sandwich plates 7.5 Set/4 $20.00 Durable and whimsical, this informal dinnerware livens up any table. Dishwasher and microwave safe.... |
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Set Of Two (2) MARA STONEWARE COLLECTION - 16 Oz Coffee Cup Collectible Beer Stein Mugs - Elephant Design $43.95 This set of two steins from the MARA STONEWARE COLLECTION would make a wonderful gift to give or receive on any occasion. Each piece has been fired twice at high temperatures and they are completely finished by hand. Natural variations in the shape, color and etched designs give each piece a unique personality. Use these beautiful, whimsical and durable wares for years to come while capitalizing o... |
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Cocktail Mix 2: Martini Madness $13.96 18 tracks including Ann-Margret's THIRTEEN MEN. Also: Mel Torme, Quincy Jones, Mose Allison etc. Scuffs on disc will not affect play. Bill Inglot mastering.... |
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Set of 2 Table Lamps with Elephant Design in Dark Finish $63.98 Dimension: 24"H Finish: Dark Material: Metal, Fabric Set of 2 Table Lamps with Elephant Design in Dark Finish Features elephant shaped base and dark fabric shade. A very stylish addition to any home that is sure to get the attention of guests. Bulbs are not included. Assembly required. ... |
