Movement turns abandoned housing into beautiful furniture, fighting climate change and growing jobs in the process
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"It refers to both lumber that's harvested from buildings that would otherwise be discarded and sent to a landfill, and it also refers to capturing material that falls during storms," he said.Woodworkers across the country are currently building the movement, but according to Pollock, there is more work to be done."If you were to poll 100 people who are working in the reclaimed wood field, the truth is is that a lot of them look like me. "This project can ameliorate a lot of that by thinking about ways to employ people, give people opportunities, avoid waste, and plant trees in places that desperately need them."Jennifer Szeliga, who leads the Urban Wood Rescue in California, has a similar mission."If you think about a tree… it's sequestering or capturing carbon, right, so that's the CO2 that's in the air and it stores it in it's in the body of the tree," she said.
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