Bark House. A Factory Like A Forest With Products Like Trees Bark House

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1 Bark House A Factory Like A Forest With Products Like Trees 1

2 WHAT IF A FACTORY WAS LIKE A FOREST AND PRODUCTS WERE LIKE TREES? What does a forest do? It cleans the air, water and soil. It nurtures the human spirit. Plus, it serves as a model in regenerative design and so much more. It is a whole-system. (planet, people, prosperity) What if a factory and its products could do the same? This presentation demonstrates how that is possible. 2

3 WHAT S POSSIBLE In 1990, we began a business and started the formation of a question about what is possible for the built-environment. How can we create processes AND products: - that are infused with the essence of nature - and symbiotically improve the lives of people and the planet? Then, how do we demonstrate whether we are? This work would reach forward like a living system with what is possible instead of starting with a problem statement. It was important that our work encompassed our whole-system. Many in the past said that only service industries could do good and that it was impossible to make products using this strategy. Our actions were inspired by the beauty and science of natural systems. We listened to people for ways we could support their growth and also - improve the air, water, soil and trees of the planet. Third party certifications verified our inputs and interviews reflect some outcomes. Today, we continue to grow and improve. For more see, 3

4 OTHERS WONDERING WHAT IS POSSIBLE 2017 Carol Sanford shares that The Regenerative Business sets the stage for what is now only dreamt of by most of today's forward-thinking leaders and paves the path to make it possible, and her book shares how. In 2015 Janine Benyus proposed a vision at the Living Future un- Conference that It s one thing to say that a company offers a great place to live and work, but can they enhance the surrounding community by giving back in the form of ecosystem services? It was in 2009 that Bill McDonough proposed in the Wall Street Journal that the green house of the future would be like a tree - with wallcoverings like bark, a trunk of carbon tubes and roots that heat the home.

5 CERTIFICATION AND VERIFICATION 2008 to to 2018, PL 2017 and 18 Relates to social equity and community initiatives. Relates to the regenerative nature of the product and company process. Relates to the global appreciation of deep product beauty. World s first and only Platinum Level Certification with 5 product measurements. The Bark House is an awarded Regenerative Business and B Corp, Best For The World company that can be described as a factory like a forest. Bark House wall coverings, made of pure, reclaimed tree bark earned the world s first and only Cradle to Cradle PLATINUM Certification. 5

6 FACTORY LIKE A FOREST

7 PLANET - AIR Passes CA VOC standards for indoor use. Passes material health standards. Sequesters and holds at least as much carbon as its manufacturing produces. 7

8 PLANET - WATER Bark House modified manufacturing processes for poplar bark wall coverings to utilize zero water. Company water stewardship initiatives clean streams. The upper Nolichucky watershed, where Bark House is located is improved. 8

9 PLANET - SOIL Bark House wall coverings are made of waste bark that has been reclaimed from the logging industry and upcycled to create interior and exterior wall coverings. These require no paints, stains or sealers and can last up to 80 years on exterior application. They biodegrade at end of life to build clean soil. 9

10 PLANET - SOIL Smaller logging crews with lighter equipment, select cutting small tracts of land all minimize forest floor disturbance so that soil and forests are regenerated faster. 10

11 PLANET - TREES Suzanne Simard studies complex, symbiotic networks in our forests. She is an ecologist with over 30 years of research in Canadian forests who has discovered that trees talk, often and over vast distances. Suzanne discusses the collaborative nature of forests and their regenerative capacity. She stresses four important variables to forest management practices that the Bark House has prescribed to its loggers: Know your local conditions. Practice patch cutting. Protect a percent of hub (or older growth) trees. Encourage specie diversity. Protect old growth forests. Act as a conservationist. 11

12 PEOPLE Clients, the community, employees and vendors all report a deep and personal regenerative effect relating to Bark House products and processes. For videos of this, go to 12

13 PEOPLE Community Value Video Client Experiences Video Employee Experiences Video 13

14 PEOPLE - ESSENCE AND PLACE Every person has a distinct essence. People gather in places where they share similar qualities that reflect their essence. Communities are formed and social bonds grow. Sometimes the essence of a place is clear but in areas of strife and struggle, it is often hard to see common threads. There are no shortcuts for the long process of continual listening for the essence of an area to understand what actually supports the people in a particular place. After nearly three decades in business, The Bark House is still listening and responding to build whole-communities. 14

15 DEEP PROSPERITY Regenerative process creates a complex network of collaborative capacity and prosperity with deep meaning that has no limit and no end. The results are measurable in the benefits that stakeholders state they receive and as defined as important to them. For more on this go to: 15

16 PROSPERITY Community Leader Reflections Video Connecting to the World Video Supporting Vendor Essence Video 16

17 A REGENERATIVE WORLD Regenerative systems can in-form current human structures that are failing and include education, health-care, even government. This process is not limited to only architecture and building. But buildings are the manifestations of human essence. As such, they stand as structures which relay a legacy to following generations. What will you build? 17

18 LARGER CLIENTS COMMERCIAL GOVERNMENT UNIVERSITY 18

19 WALL COVERINGS birch cherry pine poplar gold, leather, white leather, pin white panels, shingles, sanded, tile, round end cuts 19

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21 B E A U T I F U L Outside and Within 21

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