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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

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

Much More than Meets the Eye

June 5, 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

The Perfect Match: Preserving what we love most about wood

June 5, 2025January 16, 2025 by Kenn Busch
Tafisa’s Brass Band design, a Hickory woodgrain structure in taupe.

Tafisa’s “perfect match” combines three world-leading ways to save trees and conserve natural resources.

Categories Building Materials, Climate Change, Design, Interior Design, Sustainability

NeoCon 2024 Climate Positive Solutions Gallery

June 5, 2025January 11, 2024 by Kenn Busch

Happening 10-12 June, 2024 on the 7th Floor of The MART in Chicago, Illinois.

Categories Events, Exhibitions, Sustainability

Caron Thinks Green

June 5, 2025November 13, 2023 by Kenn Busch

See how Caron is thinking green alognside ClimatePositiveNOW.org to show how materials can go beyond sustainable.

Categories Building Materials, Furniture Design, Sustainability

Three Sustainability Benefits of Laminate Flooring

June 3, 2025September 21, 2023 by Kenn Busch
Laminate hardwoods in a windowed room

The North American Laminate Flooring Association is showing the way toward a climate positive future.

Categories Building Materials, Climate Change, Sustainability

Climate Positive NOW founder Kenn Busch on The Todd Allbaugh Show

June 3, 2025August 29, 2023 by Kenn Busch
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Hear Kenn Busch speak with Todd Allbaught about climate positive materials in this August 2023 interview.

Categories Sustainability, Climate Change
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