Millions of tons of usable wood from construction sites and downed trees in cities and towns are shipped as waste to landfills each year, resulting in staggering economic costs and environmental losses. Urban Wood Economy (UWE) is a national nonprofit turning those costs into gains. Our entrepreneurial model is leveraging untapped opportunities to capture carbon and create jobs by bringing urban and community wood utilization to scale. We see urban and community wood as the valuable commodity it is, and leverage it to create restorative (and circular) systems with multi-level benefits to the economy, environment, and communities most in need of sustainable occupations and resources. Finally, we reinvest in the urban tree canopy alongside the communities we work in, especially in marginalized neighborhoods. This part of the regenerative cycle is as important as any other link in the cycle.
