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Monday, October 5th, 2009

Carolina Home & Garden article


Thursday, October 1st, 2009

The Most Amazing Wood!

 

 

 

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Sunday, July 26th, 2009

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.


Sunday, July 26th, 2009

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.


Sunday, July 26th, 2009

Vacuum Kilns

VacDry Wanut

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.


Sunday, July 26th, 2009

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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Thursday, July 9th, 2009

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.

Downtown Asheville


Tuesday, May 26th, 2009

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


Saturday, January 17th, 2009

Asheville Treecyclers listed in the Social Capital Index

We worked with the fine folks over at the Social Capital Index to get Asheville Treecyclers listed in their enterprise directory. You can check it out here.

What is the Social Capital Index? Here’s the overview from their website:

The Social Capital Index (SCI) was first launched in the spring of 2008 by the teams at Good Capital (www.goodcap.net) and Xigi.net to create a place where both investors and enterprises could find information on recent and historical deals. Since its launch, the SCI has been capturing and sharing information on investments into funds, syndicators and relevant foundations. It has also captured and shared information on social enterprises seeking capital. The SCI was published monthly on the xigi.net platform and through the Good Capitalist newsletter. In the fall of 2008, the SCI team developed a seperate site – www.socialcapitalindex.net – as its new, online platform to highlight information about entrepreneurs and funders in the social capital marketplace.

At its core, SCI provides investors the opportunity to discover enterprises and potential co-investors and entrepreneurs the opportunity to share their message with potential investors and partners. For the community, SCI offers a place to build critical market information and explore key questions and challenges in this emerging marketplace.

Going forward, the SCI will build upon its initial launch and create a critical mass of investment information. SCI is an initiative of several social enterprise partners, and together we are tracking the social capital market’s growth, trajectory, variety and market size. We are also collaborating with a growing community of interested stakeholders to increase the knowledge and insight around key questions and performance criteria that drive capital in this emerging marketplace.



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