From Trees to Houses: Green Harvesting, Processing and Building

Half Day Workshop: Wed 8:30 – 12:00

Price: $60

This workshop will examine sustainable choices from siting, harvesting, and processing to building with your own resources. We will focus on energy and material efficiency, low cost and low impact options, natural lighting, heating and cooling and how small can be both beautiful and sustainable. We will also examine sustainable forestry's connection to green building including embedded costs, assumptions and appropriate scale/size. As a case study we will examine an 800 square foot hybrid house kit (an example of end-product forest management) helping to clarify the integration between sustainable forestry and efficient and affordable housing. We will explore concepts which include direct solar gain with air-core mass floor, hybrid post and beam, I-Beam rafters and joists, membrane insulation systems and much more.

PRESENTER Craig Patterson, 59 years young, has spent 30 years involved with sustainable forestry; 25 years in renewable energy and conservation; 38 years of working to understand and integrate how our shadow issues effect our ability to find real solutions; and 7 years with the National Roundtable on Sustainable forests and Montreal Protocol. His paper for the 2005 National Roundtable is available online at http://www.safnet.org/periodicals/multipleperspectives.