>>Use trees wisely.
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>The best use is for houses, baseball bats, hockey sticks and books.

I'd agree on violins, books, furniture (well, some furniture) and speaker boxes. But houses?

The only reason for houses being built of wood is that the wood is so cheap here, compared to other materials. And the price actually doesn't calculate with the fire squad equipment, which must be much better for wooden houses.

There are dozens of other materials to make houses from, including blocks made of certain sorts of industrial waste. Most of them perform better against earthquakes, fire and tornados/hurricanes. It's just that the construction industry here knows everything about wood, and uses the other stuff on rare occasions. It may be that I'm coming from an area (the Pannonian flats) where there's good clay for brick anywhere, just dig two spades deep.