Here's another Friday week-ender, this time from the creative folks at The Danish Wood Initiative.

It tells the story of how the wood industry was born, and why it will someday rule the world "in a good and wise way".

If this simple message is so compelling, you may ask, why don't regulatory agencies, like our own EPA, get it? You might not be surprised that the answer lies in the concept of organizational self-preservation. Forbes contributor Larry Bell explains the tangled web in his January 2014 article, EPA's Wood-Burning Stove Ban Has Chilling Consequences For Many Rural People. While it uses the case of wood-burning stoves and boilers as an example, the same process applies to regulation of furniture and panel emissions, factory and dust emissions, health and safety, forest management, and on and on and on.

This is a good opportunity to recognize all the good folks who are working to get the "Wood is Good" message out there. Waaaay too many to list here, but we know who you are...and we salute your efforts. Readers, why not acknowledge your favorite group in the comments below?

Go Wood!