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Forgotten and misunderstood forestry management is fueling wildfires and high housing costs

June 18, 2025 by Kenn Busch
Forestry and logging

Forestry, logging, our climate, and the economics of the world’s timber industry is complex. Here’s how nuance and foresight can help.

Categories Sustainability

Why Wood Is Still the Most Climate-Positive Material You Can Specify

June 5, 2025May 30, 2025 by Kenn Busch
Bucknell University, photo courtesy of Crown Veneer

If you’re looking for a material that’s beautiful, versatile, low-impact, biophilic, and scientifically proven to reduce carbon in the atmosphere, wood should be at the top of your list.

Categories Sustainability, Climate Change, Design

Material Intelligence: Destination NeoCon

June 5, 2025May 30, 2025 by Kenn Busch
Conference goers at NeoCon 2024

Happening 9-11 June, 2025 at THE MART in Chicago, Illinois. Find Material Intelligence on the 7th floor.

Categories Events

AWFS Fair 2025

May 31, 2025May 30, 2025 by Kenn Busch
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Happening 22-25 July, 2025 at the Las Vegas Convention Center.

Categories Events

ExpoSICAM 2025

May 31, 2025May 30, 2025 by Kenn Busch
Friends pose at the SICAM expo sign

Happening 14-17 October, 2025 in Pordenone, Italy.

Categories Events, Exhibitions

BDNY 2025

May 30, 2025 by Kenn Busch
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Happening 9-10 November, 2025 at the Javits Center in New York City.

Categories Events

Voices+Visionaries

June 5, 2025January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch

Hear from the visionary young designers, artists, and creators shaping our world.

Categories Building Materials, Design, Sustainability

Interprint Captures and Preserves the Beauty of Long-Gone Timber

June 5, 2025January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch

See how increasing print fidelity and texture reproduction are helping us discover (and rediscover) once-forgotten resources.

Categories Building Materials, Case Studies, Sustainability

Virtuous Reality

June 9, 2025January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch

See how METIS scanners are helping decorators and designers use new styles, textures, and more.

Categories Case Studies, Building Materials, Sustainability

Wilsonart, with Top Architects and Designers, Champions Responsible Forestry

June 5, 2025January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch

Wilsonart’s educational initiative “Understanding Wood: Sourcing Against the Grain” works with leading architects and designers to raise awareness of endangered woods.

Categories Case Studies, Climate Change, Sustainability
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