Fields of Gold, Deckles & MoUlds

42% of the industri-al wood harvest is used to make paper

environmentalpaper.org


4th largest contrib-utor to greenhouse gas emissions among United States manu-facturing industries



Forests store 50% of the world’s ter-restrial carbon.



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.


“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?”


(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.”



“Go ahead and laugh at Detroit. Because you are laughing at yourself.”―– Charlie LeDuff, “Detroit: An American Autopsy”

Crop sciences

library sciences

botany

architecture

art + design

landscape

the microbrewery of paper

chemical engineering

entomology


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.



Corn


soy


prairie grasses

negate around 47% of the CO2 emissions typically produce from virgin wood-pulp fiber paper .

Alliance for Environmental Innovation


Agri-fiber paper blend


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


megan diddie

eva chertow

book arts rso + mfa painting 2015

book arts rso + MS library sciences 2015


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