Earth911 Podcast: Cambium Carbon’s Founders on Carbon Smart Urban Wood

Earth911 Podcast: Cambium Carbon’s Founders on Carbon Smart Urban Wood

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The founders of Cambium Carbon, CEO Ben Christensen and CFO Marisa Repka, clarify how they salvage wooden from the 36 million timber that fall annually in American cities to create a hyper-local lumber provide chain. Currently, most of these fallen timber are mulched, burned, or landfilled, all of which contributes to international warming.  The firm’s Carbon Smart Wood is sourced from downed timber — additionally known as “city wooden” — and it may be utilized in furnishings and buildings instead of timber from clear-cutting operations. Even the sawdust may very well be utilized in 3D-printed wood. They additionally dedicate 15% of their income to replant new timber, which offers city inexperienced cowl that reduces heat island effects.

Cambium Carbon cofounders Ben Christensen and Marisa Repka
Cambium Carbon cofounders Ben Christensen and Marisa Repka are our friends on Sustainability in Your Ear.

Cambium Carbon is a social enterprise that has organized another, totally tracked wooden provide chain for designers, architects, and builders whereas serving to to protect native sawmills and the roles they supply. Their Traece wooden monitoring system, which permits prospects to be taught the place the wooden of their house or workplace got here from, allows a brand new stage of accountability and storytelling in wooden merchandise. We additionally talk about the potential to use their methods to different commodities. And should you’re considering working within the city wooden trade, they are hiring for 10 positions. Find out extra about Cambium Carbon at cambiumcarbon.com.