Yesterday I posted about Kitchens For Good, folks here in San Diego who are fighting hunger and food waste--and fighting climate change as well.
While I've got the topic of saving things from going into the landfill on my mind, I thought that I would mention some other folks here in San Diego County who are keeping downed trees from going into our landfills. Dan Herbst and Jessica Van Arsdale are the couple at the helm of San Diego Urban Timber. These folks harvest trees that are cut down in folks' yards, in city parks, and along the roadway and turn them into beautiful furniture, one of a kind works of art. I wrote about them a few months back for Edible San Diego. The link to the profile is here. Apparently, when they published the piece on the web, they cut off the beginning of the text; so the beginning is below. San Diego Urban Timber is yet another example of folks increasing our abundance and fighting climate change. Here is the beginning of the profile: There are logs. Lots of them. Grey from being out in the weather, they stretch from one end of the parking lot to the other. Some are as big around as oil drums. Dan Herbst stands by some recently cut planks, his feet planted in plenty of sawdust. “This would all be going to the landfill,” he says. Also standing in sawdust is Jessica Van Arsdale, who together with Herbst helms San Diego Urban Timber, their company that creates high quality furniture and other household items from locally sourced trees. Instead of the landfill, these large, weathered logs will be crafted into chairs, benches, tables, and other household items.
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CategoriesAuthorPaul Hormick is the founder of South Park Climate Solutions. He sees climate change as one of our central concerns, for ecologies as well as societies. He holds a master's degree in Environmental Science and Policy from Johns Hopkins University |