Fields of Gold, Deckles & MoUlds
Fields of Gold, Deckles & MoUlds
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42% of the industri-al wood harvest is used to make paper
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4th largest contrib-utor to greenhouse gas emissions among United States manu-facturing industries
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Forests store 50% of the world’s ter-restrial carbon.
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the approximate-ly 800 mile journey will use 133 gallons of diesel producing 2,960 pounds of CO2.
shipping lumber from boreal forests in western ontario to des plaines, Il.
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“The nation and the midwest faces a choice: Do we hold on to industry that once make us rich and now is dying, or do we abandon it and invest instead in the indus-tries of the future?”
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(2008) - detroit, mi
“The future midwestern landscape will be dotted by rotting neighbor-hoods housing people the global economy holds no meaning.” “The challenge facing these towns,
and the Midwest in general, is no less than reinvention.”
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Fields of Gold, Deckles & MoUlds
“Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.”―– Charlie LeDuff, “Detroit: An American Autopsy”
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Fields of Gold, Deckles & MoUlds
Crop sciences
library sciences
botany
architecture
art + design
landscape
the microbrewery of paper
chemical engineering
entomology
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Fresh Press is an agri-fiber paper-making lab on the Illinois campus that explores how a collaboration of farmers, art-ists, designers, and academics can revitalize a manufacturing industry in the Midwest.
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Corn
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soy
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prairie grasses
negate around 47% of the CO2 emissions typically produce from virgin wood-pulp fiber paper .
Alliance for Environmental Innovation
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Agri-fiber paper blend
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DOUBLE COOKED SOY BROWN
Agri-fiber paper blend Prairie grass paper blend
northwindsswitchgrass blonde
Agri-fiber paper blend
unleashed muttA mish-mash Agri-fiber paper blend
Agri-Fiber Paper Lab
GROW YOUR OWN PAPER
Fields of Gold, Deckles & MoUlds
Fields of Gold, Deckles & MoUlds
megan diddie
eva chertow
book arts rso + mfa painting 2015
book arts rso + MS library sciences 2015
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