The Urban Wood Network will present, “Beyond Lumber: Utilizing Entire Trees to Their Highest Use,” a Zoom-based webinar scheduled for 1 to 2 p.m. ET, Wednesday, Aug. 14.

The one-hour session will be led by Jeff Carroll, CEO and co-founder of the Urban Wood Economy Inc., a national non-profit.  Carroll is a strategist and leader committed to social and environmental innovation as a tool for the public good. He leverages a background in construction and business to work with cities to establish circular “urban wood economies” by finding wealth in the wood waste stream from building deconstruction and downed urban trees. As the CEO of UWE, Carroll is building scalable pilot programs across the United States to create employment on-ramps to a circular wood market that reinvests wealth back into marginalized communities -- all while capturing carbon and upcycling wood and woody debris.

Carroll will discuss UWE’s efforts to forge circular supply chains for wood utilization from wildland urban interfaces to city centers. By utilizing all of the tree — including trimmings and species not slated for UW products — UWE is transforming large-scale wood waste to lumber, biochar, compost, and more. Jennifer Judd, director of partnership and outreach for UWE, will moderate the session.

Attendees can earn Society of American Foresters CFEs and International Society of Arborists CEUs.

Learn more and register.