Environmentally-Friendly Investment
Environmentally friendly green investments
Paulownia Fortunei is environmentally friendly and sustainable, as it can be harvested for ethanol, paper and lumber products and still re-grow vigorously to continue the quest to remediate the soil and the biosphere where ever it is planted. This tree can grow in depleted soil and actually bring it back to life with a root system teeming with mycology constantly rebuilding the soil. Important environmental considerations should be made in addition to financial ones.
Firstly, blue gums, unlike Paulownia when logged leave the soil depleted of nutrients and the surface roots leave the soil unusable for many years. Another important financial consideration before investing in low value timber is that large international companies control the price by dominating the world market. This ultimately means that the price of blue gum and woodchip will decline.
As a contrast, there are forestry investment options in quality timber where there is a free market and continued high demand. The fastest return on quality timber is with well-managed Paulownia plantations, the Paulownia tree is suitable for logging after four to five years.
The Paulownia Fortunei could be considered the ultimate green investment tree.