Treecycle America: Certified Urban Forestry | Damon Barron | TEDxCharlotte
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- Опубліковано 10 гру 2015
- We throw away 50 million lbs of tree debris in Charlotte NC alone each year. This is very underutilized and TCA plans to change that. Our goal is to educate and change where a commodity comes from and how far it comes. We have the potential to have value in our trees, after their living usefulness is done.
I am creating the next generation of Urban Forestry. With the understanding that intentional planting of the right species can create a commodity in Urban Forest rather than a waste product. With a 15+ year background in the supply chain of commercially forested lumber and wood products I see a vision to the future of 10 billion inhabitants and the need to pay more attention to the local resource at hand, regardless where that might be.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at ted.com/tedx
Tells a great story that every town and city can copy. Lets unite and work together to find a useful purpose for all the trees that come out annually from our urban forests. People need wood, so lets spread out the forests that supply us to both the rural and urban forests.
Powerful story!! What a wonderful circular economy idea. Amazing work!!! Loved learning about this story.
I am looking into getting into Urban forestry and this TED talk is very informative in communicating how wasteful humans are even with trees!!
You should have seen the hardwood produced by Chicagolands urban ash trees. After spending their first 135 years getting ready to live out their next 150. Until man's untimely introduction of emerald ash borer.
Makes perfect sense, Damon is right on target! Sustainability should be at the heart of everything we do. I'm a furniture maker and honey bee farmer in Charlotte, NC. I make my beehives & furniture from trees that grew right here in Charlotte and would have become mulch if I did not step in & take them to a sawmill. @HoneyOnWales
Great job Damon!
Right speci of tree at right place...and purposely grown for wood work.....sounds great....👍