A WEBINAR PRESENTED BY SIERRA CLUB'S FORESTS & CLIMATE TEAM
November 14, 2019 from noon to 1 PM Pacific Time
This program explains why increased forest protection and improved
stewardship are key to addressing the climate crisis and reducing the
embodied carbon of wood products - and how the green building
movement can help.
Topics include:
- Forests' role in combatting climate change
- Is increased wood use and mass timber construction beneficial or detrimental?
- Forest carbon: what it is, how it works and why it determines the real carbon footprint of wood products
- Climate-friendlier forestry and practical wood procurement strategies to promote it
- Illegally logged and traded wood products: the climate connection + a new and innovative approach to avoiding illegal wood in building construction
About the Presenters:
For 25 years, Jason Grant has been a leader in the
sustainable forestry and green building movements.
He is the principal of Jason Grant Consulting and
works with companies and NGOs on policy,
advocacy, marketing, training and compliance. A
LEED AP BD+C, Jason is recognized as an expert
in ecological forest products, forest certification and
forest legality. Early in his career, he co-founded
EcoTimber, one of the first companies in the world
to bring to market products from forests certified to
the stringent environmental and social standards of the Forest Stewardship
Council (FSC). He is co-chair of the Sierra Club's Forests & Climate Team and
helps lead the Club's efforts to elevate forests as a climate solution while
promoting leadership and challenging greenwashing in the forest products
and building sectors. He also represents Sierra Club on the board of the US
office of the FSC.
Dr. Dominick A. DellaSala is President and Chief
Scientist of the Geos Institute in Ashland, Oregon and
former President of the Society for Conservation
Biology, North America Section. He is an internationally
renowned author of over 200 science papers on forest
and fire ecology, conservation biology, endangered
species management, and landscape ecology.
Dominick has given plenary and keynote talks ranging
from academic conferences to the United Nations Earth
Summit. Dominick is currently on Oregon's Global
Warming Commission Subcommittee on Forest Carbon and is editor of
numerous scientific journals and publications. His book "Temperate and
Boreal Rainforests of the World: Ecology and Conservation" received an
academic excellence award from Choice magazine, one of the nation's top
book review journals.