Urban Wood Utilization Community Event

{"version":"0.3.0","atoms":[],"cards":[],"markups":[["strong"],["em"]],"sections":[[1,"h2",[[0,[0],1,"Do You Care About Our Community\u0027s Carbon Footprint?"]]],[1,"h3",[[0,[1],1,"Did You Know!"]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"Ann Arbor loses about 600 trees or approximately 1,100 Metric Tons of CO2 (~300 MT Carbon) from its fallen urban trees every year. They also plant about 1000 trees per year but it will take over 10 years of planting 1000 trees per year to make up for that first year of loss."]]],[1,"h3",[[0,[1],1,"We Will Change That!"]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"Come and learn how we as a community are able bring that carbon loss and CO\u00b2 emissions down by up to 65% or greater by continuing to sequester that carbon within our fallen urban trees."]]],[1,"h3",[[0,[1],1,"How?"]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"We can do this with the support of a wide array of local businesses, community members and elected officials to launch the first ever Circular UrbanWood Triconomy\u2122, soon to be replicated around the state and country."]]],[1,"h3",[[0,[1],1,"When, Who and Where?"]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"On Sunday, October 9th at "],[0,[0,0],2,"NOON SHARP"],[0,[],0,", Urban Ashes, The City of Ann Arbor Forestry Department, A\u00b2Zero, Urban Wood Network Michigan, Tervol\u2019s Wood Products LLC and the Lumberjacks will host a community engagement event at Lumberjacks lumber yard\/store, located at 8205 Jackson Rd, Ann Arbor."]]],[1,"h3",[[0,[1],1,"The Full Skinny!"]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"The presentation will start promptly at noon and run for only 2.5 hours. The event will showcase the pilot model of Urban Ashes\u2019 Circular UrbanWood Triconomy\u2122 (CUT Model\u2122), benefiting all of the citizens of Ann Arbor and Washtenaw County. The CUT Model\u2122 will maximize the utilization of Ann Arbor\u2019s and Washtenaw County\u2019s fallen urban trees while providing career\/business opportunities for our formerly incarcerated citizens and youth that have had contact with the justice system."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"The presentation will juxtapose the business-as-usual method of mulching all of our fallen urban trees, a standard practice used by cities across the country, with the CUT Model\u2122, which ensures the highest social, economic, and environmental utilization of our fallen urban trees."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"This event will include a live tour of the Lumberjacks yard and retail lumber store displaying the CUT Model\u2122, as logs are processed from arrival, to sorting, and with a milling demonstration. Attendees will become well informed on the benefits of adopting the CUT Model\u2122 to capture the full benefit from fallen urban trees. This is currently a missed opportunity to continue to sequester the carbon within these trees and cut down on the city\u2019s disposal fees."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"It will also demonstrate the importance and value of the local private businesses needed to realize the tree\u2019s maximum potential. For example, the attendees will be able to benefit from The Lumberjacks huge sale on a wide selection of kiln dried urban wood, live-edge slabs and lumber milled, all from local trees."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"Featured at the event is the diversion of a single urban black locust tree from the business-as-usual process, creating the opportunity to sequester the release of ~ 3000lbs of carbon or ~5 metric tons of CO2 equivalent emissions. This also equals the offset of ~5,520lbs of coal burning emissions, or ~11.6 barrels of oil consumed, or the emissions from the electricity of one average home for about a year. This single diversion also equals about what ~82.5 tree seedlings sequester in 10 years."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"Leading the event is Paul Hickman, founder and CEO of Urban Ashes. Paul has over 25 years of experience in the urban and reclaimed wood industries as a designer, manufacturer, advocate, and consultant. Paul launched Urban Ashes as a for-profit social enterprise in 2009 out of the original Urban Wood Project, which is now the national Urban Wood Network. The Urban Wood Project was created in 2005 as a response to the onslaught of the Emerald Ash Borer in Southeast Michigan. Over the next 10 years Urban Ashes grew to sell furniture and picture frames to over 250 retail partners in 43 states."]]],[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"In 2019, Paul shifted the focus of Urban Ashes from manufacturing to consulting with municipalities and businesses to design, develop and implement urban wood utilization infrastructure across the country. Currently, Urban Ashes is working with multiple cities in Michigan and other states to implement their CUT Model\u2122"]]]]}