Carly Gayle
Carly has worked with Local Futures since 2018. Among other tasks, Carly is responsible for the Planet Local series and the Localization Action Guide. A graduate of Wellesley College, she has practiced permaculture and regenerative design in Madagascar, Indonesia, and the USA, and now lives near Washington, DC. She is currently studying herbal medicine.
Yard to Table: Building a Local Wood Economy
Inside the Washington, DC beltway – a densely populated area of roughly 20 by 20 miles – trees removed due to disease, death, and development contained 200 million board feet of usable lumber in 2008. That’s enough wood to frame more than 12,000 homes of 2,000 square feet each.[1] But instead, nearly all of it…
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