We exist to deliver the most measurable, least speculative, highest yield carbon removal solutions at gigatonne scale with minimal delay and maximal co-benefit. Our primary tool in executing this mission is biomass burial, which we partner with stewards of forested land to deploy at institutional scale.
At COCO we foster collaborative conservation initiatives. We Mentor placed-based collaborative organizations and provide financial, technical, and staff support. We Work to support organizations that address local conservation issues through an inclusive community-based approach.
The Great Lakes region has experienced a rash of pulp and paper mill closures. These mills were vital to the regional economy, local communities, and forest health. One reason for these closures was due to mismanagement of these mills by equity firms that are detached from the local communities the mills supported.
SIXCO, a Nevada domestic corporation, is a consortium of innovative companies focused on infrastructure projects that facilitate U.S. bidirectional commerce and trade.
Silvis Materials is creating sustainable materials for the $32B polymer emulsion industry in order to reduce emissions and improve our environment. Silvis uses cellulose, sustainably farmed from eucalyptus trees, to displace petroleum-based materials in packaging and building products.
Whole Forest is a forest products company founded in 2008 to reverse deforestation in Ecuador. It consists of an Ecuadorian forestry and manufacturing business and a US marketing and sales business.
Exemplary Forestry Management is the non-profit manager for the Exemplary Forestry Investment Fund (EFIF) and related for-profit impact-first timber investment vehicles based in Maine’s 5 million-acre northern Appalachian Mountain Corridor.
Oweesta capitalizes its loan fund through various grant and investment opportunities to those interested in providing capital to Native CDFIs. Our organization’s investment portfolio is very diverse and has been managed prudently for over 20 years. Oweesta has never experienced a loss of investor capital. For investment, Oweesta seeks capital invested for at least five years at less than 2%. This allows us to provide low-cost capital to indigenous communities all over the United States.
We are a tech startup with a patented process of wood-product manufacturing. Our process can work on one single machine to make any object from a tiny door knob to a multi-story building frame direct from CAD-to-product. This yields a business model to make [on-shore] manufacturing both profitable & eco-friendly – to impact climate / forestry / social welfare simultaneously. There is a need for “smart” wooden objects with hybrid properties and embedded electronics for the IoT age. We seek investment for engineering costs to demo the process. We have 35 years of experience in the domain of wood-product-design & manufacturing + deep knowledge of machine tech. We have support and interest from international experts, organizations, consultants & tech providers.
PLACE is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit team collaborating with cities to design and build mixed-income, transit-oriented developments that feature the arts and affordable living opportunities. The communities we build demonstrate profound environmental design and empower the community to participate in every aspect of the development process. We are community builders with decades of experience designing, financing, building, and operating places for the public benefit. Our mission is to create places that foster a sustainable, just and inspiring world.
WholeTrees scales the use of low-value trees – the original mass timber- in commercial construction. The revenue-positive, woman-owned company has de-risked the use of structural round timber (SRT) in new building markets, is scaling sales nationally, and will begin licensing its production processes and software by 2023. When trees are left unmilled, they are 50% stronger than milled timber of the same diameter. WholeTrees harnesses this increase in structural capacity via new products, grading, and software, opening new markets for trees removed from healthy forest management. New markets for low-value trees result in healthier timberlands, carbon sequestration, rural jobs, less industry waste, and awe-inspiring buildings.
We provide domestic mass timber options for Architects, Contractors, and Developers, which is an inherent evolution in building systems and science, on par with the best in Europe with regard to both product and process while engaging in a revolution on the resource side of the equation.
Atelier Mey is a collective of architects who enjoy confronting the circumstance of architecture. The architecture is conscious and generative–it is actively engaged in setting and curious of the novel. The work of Atelier Mey is committed to design excellence. Projects are realized at varying scales and range from the intimacy of the human body to the assemblage of architecture into urbanism. In relation to specific project inquiries, collaborative transdisciplinary teams contribute to an open dialogue inclusive of geography, material science, energy, and biology. Rooted in pedagogical frameworks, academic inquiries act as provocations for the practice of Atelier Mey, while the firm engages in partnerships with industry leaders and manufacturers for both speculative and built work. The work is inherently sustainable and dedicated to craft.
EFM develops natural climate solutions that aim to generate positive environmental and social impacts, including carbon sequestration, habitat enhancement, and water quality protection while creating investor value. EFM stewards over $200M of capital under management and advisement via commingled private funds and consulting services. Investments are made through
long-term fund vehicles that serve a diverse array of investors, including individuals,
family offices, foundations, and institutions. We specialize in blending public, private, and philanthropic capital in investment strategies that address multiple-stakeholder objectives and in managing investments for their full range of financial, ecological and social values.
Merge Urban Development Group is a development team focused on real estate development in Qualified Opportunity Zones across the Midwest. Our passion is creating mixed-use developments in the urban core that reflect both a community’s history and its aspirations. Our individual team members bring experience in real estate, economic development, construction, city planning, space making, technology startups, and small business. Merge has identified a site and developed construction plans for a mass timber mixed-use building in Dubuque, Iowa. The project is a pilot for Merge’s workforce housing portfolio, designed to maximize efficiency and replicability in the product’s application in affordable housing strategies.
Spruce Root assists the people and businesses of Southeast Alaska in reaching their full potential through capital investments, technical support, and programs to promote economic, cultural, and environmental resiliency. A Native CDFI with an Alaska Native majority board of directors, Spruce Root was founded in 2012 with seed capital by Sealaska Corporation, the Alaska Native regional corporation for Southeast Alaska. Through our technical assistance, business competitions, and backbone support for the Sustainable Southeast Partnership, we’re enhancing capacity for entrepreneurship in underserved communities while building common ground between entities that have historically been opposed to each other: Tribes, industry, and conservation.
Ethos Precision Systems is a sustainable manufacturer. Using sustainably harvested wood, we manufacture CLT, Glulam, and a wide variety of modular construction components. Our primary markets are affordable housing, hybrid construction systems, and net-zero development projects.
Mass Timber Systems (MTS) is a design and manufacturing startup in Spokane, WA to commercialize CLT volumetric modular systems for low-rise (1-3 stories) and mid-rise (4-12 stories) buildings. As a spin-out of public/private mass timber efforts in Washington State dating back to 2011, MTS was founded to accelerate integrated value chains from rural forest management and milling to advanced design and manufacturing in urban centers.
Recognizing the direct relationship rural communities have with forest landscapes, Sierra Institute has advanced integrative programs that support rural environmental, economic, and community health at local, regional, and national levels for the past twenty-five years. We focus on the idea of a triple bottom line – ecology, economy and community. Our organization collaborates with stakeholders from diverse backgrounds to create lasting change that benefits both rural communities and downstream urban centers. Programs include community-based natural resource management, rural community development, youth stewardship, and wood biomass utilization.
Wisewood Energy is one of the nation’s leaders in developing advanced wood energy.
We outfit communities, businesses, and industries with right-sized biomass technology that strengthens local economies, lowers energy costs and promotes environmental stewardship.
Fabric Workshop is a mass timber and sustainable building technology studio. We design digitally fabricated, parametric structural systems and complete, passive house building solutions for the 3 to 8 story, residential and commercial infill development market. Our patent-pending, mass timber structural system is specifically designed and sourced to utilize small- and medium-diameter trees to help alleviate the West Coast’s wildfire crisis.
Timber Logic has purchased the old Konkolville mill site in Orofino Idaho. We are currently completing the old building demo and the earth work to support a new complex. We will be built in two phases. First will be the most modern Glulam production factory in North America. The second phase will be Cross laminated Timber CLT production.
GO Lab is raising capital to launch North America’s first manufacturing plant to make high performing, sustainable insulation products from wood fiber. the company owns the former Madison, ME UPM paper mill and will be making a complete suite of insulation materials including blown in, batt, and board products.
Cambium Carbon is a social impact venture working to scale a circular model for urban forestry by enabling local wood economies. We created our “Reforestation Hub” model as a framework for giving urban trees a second life after they are removed. Our goal is to turn wood waste into valuable products, saving cities costs and generating new revenues to support tree planting and maintenance.
Children’s Museums aren’t just nice, they’re necessary for a community to thrive. Our mission is to inspire learning through play. During its first 15 years, CMEC has served 930,000 visitors and annually we serve 2,000 families through membership. We believe that Children’s Museums are both an educational and economic engine in their community. When nobody else wanted to be in downtown Eau Claire, CMEC planted its roots.
Shortstack is a mass timber housing solution that delivers a responsive, replicable, “missing middle” product in the Portland metro region. Located across multiple urban infill sites in well-connected neighborhoods, Shortstack creates healthy, efficient homes that are affordable for working people. Shortstack dismantles an exclusive, institutionally racist system of commercial real estate practice that has historically been limited to (primarily white male) high net worth individuals.
Kaiser + Path began exploring mass timber affordable housing solutions during Oregon’s 2020 wildfires, and we realized we needed a large-scale solution urgently. Thousands of people lost their homes in weeks, and most are still unhoused due to a lack of rapid response solutions on the market. PathHouse is a response to three major converging crises: Housing, Equity, and Climate. Our solution is a high-volume modular housing factory using mass-timber products made from wildfire risk-reducing thinning projects for the units’ shell and structure.
The Trollworks is a spinoff of Gila Woodnet, a 501-c-5 nonprofit organized in 1998 to tackle solutions for transforming forest restoration into community based triple-bottom-line opportunities. Trollworks is focused on liability biomass based value-added products, the primary interest being modular biochar+energy systems for distributed building and process heat using pyrolysis syngas as fuel, with a co-product of high quality biochar.
High Plains Biochar offers biochar equipment solutions for a wide variety of clients who have waste biomass available and a desire to remove carbon from the atmosphere. High Plains Biochar was founded in 2016 with a focus on making and selling biochar but went through a pivot in 2020 as we moved our focus to the equipment side of biochar manufacturing. We have our own patent pending biochar equipment for small scale applications and a proven technology from Germany for larger applications that we are building in the United States.
The TPC was established to put more emphasis on the vitality of communities, local businesses, and individuals involved with Wisconsin and Michigan’s forest industry. TPC will give entities along the supply chain and supporting service industries input into key decisions, and strives to provide the same sustainable management philosophy to Wisconsin and Michigan’s forest industry that we do to Wisconsin and Michigan’s forests, realizing that one cannot be sustainable if the other one is not.
Community-driven non-profit whose mission is, “Rural people working together for a safe, sustainable and healthy community.”
