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Treecycling in Pittsburg
The Urban Tree Forge in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania is creating beautiful treecycled furniture and art from urban trees. Their website showcases some very nice work. Check them out.
Reclaimed Lumber Report from Dovetail Partners
Steve Bratkovitz of Dovetail Partners Inc. published a detailed and highly informative report titled: Reclaiming Lumber Products from Waste Wood. It gives a great current overview on the amount of wood wasted in the U.S. and points to solutions based on recycling and reuse.
Here’s an excerpt:
As a nation, the U.S. uses a large amount of wood and generates a significant volume of wood waste in the MSW and C&D waste streams. Interest is growing in utilizing this wood waste for a myriad of lumber and related products. The efficient reuse and recycling of wood waste presents an opportunity to extend our timber resource, reduce consumption of new resources, conserve landfill space, reduce costs through avoided purchase/disposal fees, preserve carbon storage, reduce energy and environmental burdens of producing ‘new’ products, and create ‘green’ jobs.
The full version is available through their website for free here. Check it out.
Vacuum Kilns
We recently had the opportunity to have a load of our large slabs dried in a commercial vacuum kiln. Drying slabs so they are suitable for use in building or woodworking is typically accomplished by air drying the slabs for one or more years. Vacuum drying is a unique, and from what we’ve gathered, highly optimal way to reduce the time required to make green, newly milled slabs ready for use.
The nice folks up at PCS VacDry allowed us to use their facility to test dry a load of Cucumber Magnolia and Red Oak. The results look very promising and we’re exploring strategies to take advantage of this technology in the future.
ATC is now tweeting
For all you tweeters and followers out there, Asheville Treecyclers is now on twitter! Follow us at twitter.com/treecyclers.
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Keeping it Local
The Asheville Treecyclers is dedicated to using local, downed urban trees, local tree service companies, local sawyers and processors, local woodworkers and artists. Our co-op member woodworkers and artists are supported by conscientious customers and buyers seeking a more sustainable and responsible wood product.
Inter-Cooperative Dialog Invitation
The State of the Cooperative Movement
Saturday, May 30th
2pm – 5pm
Firestorm Cafe & Books, a worker-owned community event space in downtown Asheville, is celebrating its one year anniversary and wishes to mark the occasion by facilitating a gathering of cooperative businesses located in the Katuah Bioregion.
This gathering will focus on our shared cooperative principles and will explore the potential for a regional cooperative network. Topics may include:
- Local cooperative history
- Mutual aid between co-ops
- Marketing cooperativism to the public
Please consider attending this exciting opportunity to meet with fellow cooperators and share your experience in the region’s rapidly expanding cooperative movement!
RSVP to info@firestormcafe.com or (828) 255-8115
Sincerely,
E Scott
Firestorm Cafe & Books
www.firestormcafe.com
(828) 255-8115