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Healthy Economy Healthy Planet Stewardship

An Elegant Matrix

In the Northwest, where tons of biomass rots in forests or burns in slash piles, the conversion of waste into biochar is an environmental and economic win-win.

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Healthy Economy Inquiry

Where Growth Meets Decay

Bowls made of hardwoods like curly soft maple, sugar maple, box elder and buckeye oak are adorned with pigments made by fungi whose ecological role is, ironically, to decompose wood.

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Healthy Economy Innovation

The Greening of Wood Products

Wood composites offer resilience, efficiency and strength.

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Healthy Economy

Broken Beams

How and when things break yields information that manufacturers use to build better structures. So it’s no surprise that the companies that make the things we live in, ride over and depend on support research that tells them just how far their products will take us.