活动名称：木艺木趣国际研讨会暨展览会
时间地点：2011年10月20日，印度班加罗尔J N Tata多功能礼堂
演讲嘉宾：Jim Birkemeier
演讲题目：Full value forestry: New jobs from dead trees on the family farm

摘要：Our family forest business sells thousands of high-value wood products direct to customers around the world. First priority is to sell our solid wood flooring and natural furnishings to homeowners in our local community, then we export our surplus wood to distant customers using the internet. Our 200 acre forest is the most productive, natural, and beautiful woodlot in the region and our annual harvest is just a fraction of the trees that naturally die each year. In the midst of this major economic recession, we are using our dead trees, the natural output of our forest, to put people to work with well-paying and rewarding jobs. Using just 20% of our annual growth, we now support 4 full time jobs. The potential is one full-time job per 10 acres of forest land. I choose to use the smallest machinery possible and hire the most creative people I can. What we do is old-fashioned, just the opposite of Industrial Forestry today. This business model is universal, trees are a plentiful and low value commodity that can be manufactured and marketed on a small scale - to produce high-value products to create new jobs almost anywhere.

Jim Birkemeier, Timbergreen Forestry, Timbergreen Farm, S11478 Soeldner Rd, Spring Green WI 53588, USA.