Ben Christensen & Marisa Repka | Cambium Carbon | 2021 J.M.K. Innovation Prize
JMK Fund
Each year 36 million trees fall in American cities. The vast majority are mulched, landfilled, or burned—at eye-popping economic and environmental cost. At the same time, cities struggle to equitably reforest neighborhoods, with communities of color long burdened by unequal access to benefits that urban trees provide. Connecting these two challenges, Cambium Carbon leverages the urban tree life cycle, showing that by processing—rather than discarding—downed urban trees, we can create a waste-to-…