Have you noticed how technology’s brilliant discoveries are helping to protect our world’s natural environment in ways we could never have dreamed of even a few years ago?

This morning, I read a story about a company that has figured out how to 3D print wood products from the waste left behind when we don’t use all of the 15 billion or so trees we log annually. It can make any kind of wood you want, even the endangered rosewood tree which is logged in forests in places like Madagascar to make furniture for China and which apparently is more trafficked than ivory or rhino horn. You can sand this 3D printed wood and the grain stays intact, unlike other forms of manufactured wood. Or you can actually print a chair or a bowl or other product from it.