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Architects, landscape architects, private arborists, municipal arborists, public works administration, urban planners, manufacturers and makers… we need you all to understand your critical role in the urban wood industry. https://lnkd.in/ghyGzNeB WEMU’s David Fair’s questions and interview allowed Urban Ashes to shed light and clarity on our first Municipal Log Recovery Yard in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as part of our Circular UrbanWood Triconomy™️ models. Ann Arbor is the first domino while we are actively working with over 20 other cities across 5 states. Look for more cities to come on line soon! In collaboration with AncesTREE™ we will be able to track and provide reports and data back to the cities to include in their carbon and environmental goals. #urbanashes #municipallogrecoveryyard #woodrecycling #carbonsequestration #urbanwood

Architects, landscape architects, private arborists, municipal arborists, public works administration, urban planners, manufacturers and makers… we need you all to understand your critical roll in the urban wood industry. Tomorrow, Wednesday October 23rd, Urban Ashes and our first Municipal Log Recovery Yard in Ann Arbor, Michigan, as part of our Circular UrbanWood Triconomy™️ models, is featured on Issues Of The Environment on WEMU, during Morning Edition and hosted by David Fair. https://lnkd.in/gbTfAjQq It will air two times between 5 & 10am and then will live on via their archive at https://lnkd.in/gDysWthY Ann Arbor is the first domino while we are actively working with over 20 other cities across 5 states. Look for more cities to come on line soon! #urbanashes #municipallogrecoveryyard #woodrecycling #carbonsequestration #urbanwood

Thank @michiganpublic for the coverage of the launch of our first Municipal Log Recovery Yard in Ann Arbor, Michigan as part of our first Circular UrbanWood Triconomy™️ CUT Model. Ann Arbor has taken a new path away from chipping all of their fallen urban trees. Unfortunately, this the municipal standard across the country, chipping, burning or landfilling our public trees when they do need to be removed for reasons such as safety, storm damage blight and even new development. As part of A2Zero, this will help decrease Ann Arbor’s carbon footprint and CO2e emissions. Our new model is also now in various stages in 20+ cities across 5 states. Look to see this become the new standard and the new normal. in Ann Arbor, it was always extra sad to see that green dot on a tree as it was tagged to be removed for some of the above reasons. Now when you see an orange dot within that green dot that means part of that tree will be salvaged and made available to local mills and manufacturers. In collaboration with AncesTREE, this will help continue to sequester the carbon that tree spent its entire life creating and cutting down on CO2 omissions that are typically generated from the decay and disposal of our municipal trees. This will also increase the availability of local net negative wood resources while increasing the economic benefits for the local communities. Please let us know if you are a local mill to the Ann Arbor area and are interested in accessing some of these logs or if you are in another community where you would like to implement a similar program. https://lnkd.in/g-_d5SpM #circularurbanwoodtriconomy #urbanashes #UrbanWood #ReclaimedWood #CarbonSequestration #CircularEconomy #CutModel #AnnArbor #ancestree #MunicipalLogRecoveryYard #Sustainability #CarbonFootprint #CommunityForestry #fullcircleurbanforestry

PRESS RELEASE The City of Ann Arbor, Michigan and Urban Ashes®️ launch the first Circular UrbanWood Triconomy™, Municipal Log Recovery Yard (MLRY). This is just the beginning with many more cities across Michigan and four other states currently in progress. Ann Arbor is just the first domino. How does this impact the Design and Build Industry and the Environment? By facilitating the utilization of fallen municipal trees—trees that were removed for reasons other than their wood value—we are tapping into an extraordinary resource. Approximately 7 to 8 billion board feet of furniture-grade lumber become available each year across the U.S., and yet, most of it is chipped, burned, or sent to landfills. These trees can come from urban, suburban, and even rural environments, including those damaged by storms, stricken by blight, removed due to development, or aged-out orchard trees. This turns what would otherwise be a low-value short-lived product or waste into a valuable long-lived resource, but we need the support and engagement of the design and build community. Architects, designers, builders, and manufacturers play a crucial role in specifying urban wood for their projects. Without this buy-in, we will continue to lose this fine wood, along with the vast quantities of sequestered carbon it holds—approximately 6.4 million metric tonnes of carbon, equivalent to 23 million metric tonnes of CO2e emissions… ANNUALLY IN THE US. The Urban Ashes CUT Model™ simplifies the process for municipalities and private tree removal services, making it easier for logs to be transferred into the hands of local urban mills. This model streamlines the red tape, allowing mills to convert logs into lumber more efficiently, and ultimately get that lumber into the hands of local and regional manufacturers. Call to Action We need architects, designers, builders, manufacturers, specifiers, and landowners to recognize their role in the urban wood supply chain. Together, we can begin to reduce the staggering amount of valuable urban wood that is destroyed every year. Capturing just 40% of this resource would be the environmental equivalent of planting 154 million trees and growing them for ten years. Please share this message, and reach out to Urban Ashes®️ or myself for more information. Ask your local community if they have a municipal wood recycling program, and if not, tell them about Urban Ashes®. This is a collective effort—we can't do it alone. #circularurbanwoodtriconomy #cutmodel #urbanwood #urbanwoodutilization #MLRY #municipallogrecoveryyard #municipalwoodrecycling #woodrecycling #woodrecovery #reclaimedwood #salvagedwood #urbanashes #urbanash https://lnkd.in/ghhvvZDw

Ann Arbor Public Schools continues to blaze the trail and set the example of what can and should be done when doing school upgrades and expansions. AAPS reached out to Urban Ashes to help facilitate the construction site tree management at the new construction at their Pathways to Success campus, ensuring they maximize the utilization of the trees to be removed and minimize their environmental impact while also providing excellent teaching tools and proven biophilic benefits back to the students and staff. #sustainabledesign #landscapemanagement #annarbor #urbanwood #newconstruction https://lnkd.in/gDmsV49U

Join us tomorrow for the next in our monthly Urban Wood Network Education Series Webinars. We're excited to have National Hardwood Lumber Association (NHLA) with us to discuss their grading rules and how they may apply to urban wood. We'll also have the opportunity to ask them questions, so be sure and have them ready, or get them to me and I'll ask them. sign up link through Society of American Foresters https://lnkd.in/gKG3UrmN #nhla #lumbergrading #lumber #forestproud #urbanwood #urbanwoodnetwork

As part of the Urban Wood Network 2024 Education Series, the UWN Western Region will be hosting an in-person event at the Urban Wood Store. 🌳 April 13th 2024 🌳 1334 Melody Road Olivehurst California 🌳 8:30am till 4PM with Happy Hour to follow 🌳 Woodworking Contest featuring urban wood 💡 Not local?? You can still join the contest and send pictures and the story of your project that used urban wood. This will help us spread the word of the many ways urban wood can be used. Read more about the speaker line-up and what you'll learn by clicking this link: https://lnkd.in/gB-hW-Cz 🗓 Registration link for conference and for the woodworking contest in comments below #urbanwood #finewoodworking #woodworkingcontest #lumber #furniture #sustainablematerials #sustainabilitymatters

📣Check out the MARCH issue of 🌲 CommuniTREE News 🌳 with the latest in trees and tech news: ☑️ BLOG: How Oxfordshire Utilizes Urban Forestry Data ☑️ ARTICLE: Planting Trees for the Next 100 Years ☑️ UPCOMING WEBINAR: CRM Integration & Project Management through TreePlotter ☑️ ARTICLE: Residents Protest a 'Silent Deforestation' ☑️ ARTICLE: Train Station In The Forest ☑️ TREEPLOTTER: 12.5 Million Trees ☑️ ARTICLE: Train Station In The Forest ☑️ GUIDE: Best Time to Prune a Maple Tree: How and When? ☑️ ARTICLE: Racism and Unequal Access to Green Spaces ☑️ ARTICLE: Transforming Past Gas Station Site into Future Forest ☑️ ARTICLE: Midwestern States Consider Bans of the Popular – but Invasive – Bradford Pear ☑️ ARTICLE: Hot? Hungry? ☑️ ARTICLE: Tree Inventory Highlights Aging Trees Read the full 🌳March 2023 🌲 CommuniTREE Newsletter here https://bit.ly/457vfyl

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A brief video on what can be done differently with Construction Site Tree Management to decrease the carbon footprint of the project through the utilization of any trees that HAD to have been removed for the project. Ann Arbor Public Schools wanted to do just that, decrease their footprint. They reached out to us to help them achieve and document this goal. With a little planning, coordination, experience, knowledge and communication, we were able to achieve that goal. Together, we were able to divert multiple walnut, hard maple and hackberry logs from the chipper. These logs also = the continued sequestration of about 2157 pounds of carbon, NOT releasing of 4238 lbs of CO2e and planting about 118 saplings and growing them for 10 years. Through our tracking in partnership with AncesTREE™, we are able to accurately and transparently provide the needed documentation back to the landscape architects, contractors and the school management. #municipalwoodrecycling #carbonsequestration #woodrecycling #urbanwood #urbanforestry #fullcircleurbanforestry #forestproud #municipalforestry #sustainablity #climatecrisis