Do you get out and enjoy our local forests? Want to make sure they’re healthy and around for your children and your children’s children to enjoy? How about enjoying forests while using cool forest products that benefit the forests they came from? If so, check out our Envirowood products sold locally!

 Blue Hue Shades and Coffee Mugs Product details:  Floatable! Sunglasses that don’t sink!  Beautiful wood from local forests  Cool blue hue that says you care about your forests Our Products

  Due to fire suppression, disease, and overgrowth Colorado forests are over dense and essentially unhealthy. To be healthy they need thinning of dead wood  Our business uses the wood from Beatle killed forests to make products—products that currently are made with plastics How our products help the forests

  We help mitigate pine that is killed by pine beetles and allow new growth and decreases the chance of disease spreading  Pine beetles create blue hues in the wood creating an aesthetic bonus to our products Forest benefits, cont.

  The suppression of fire is a major issue in creating over dense forests, as is dead wood  When we suppress small naturally occurring fires on the landscape ground fuels build up and when a large fire occurs everything gets burnt, sedimentation decimates our waterways, and invasive species outcompete the landscape  By reducing fuels on the land we decrease the chance of large fires that are detrimental to ecosystems and infrastructure Why thin forests?

  19.7 billion cubic feet of dead beetle kill timber is salvageable and ready to be used for manufactured goods  According to the USDA data table volume wise, Central and Northern Rocky Mountain states have the highest salvageable timber reports Why thin, cont.

 For a 12″ wide board, the cost is $1.50 per board foot (Source: Mountain Heart Woodworks, Colorado)  We estimate we can make a pair of sunglasses out of 2 board feet, or a material cost of $3.00, plus lens cost, hinges and screws.  We estimate a tall coffee mug will take 4 board feet at a cost of $7.00 in materials. Cost of Beatle kill wood

 For profitability and to cover overhead costs, our product price is double our cost. Glasses - $26 Coffee Mug - $14 Affordable, durable and stylish! Pricing our Products

 Need another reason to buy our product? Cut down on coffee cup waste! Make a difference

  It is estimated that 14 billion paper coffee cups are thrown away every year – enough to circle the earth 55 times and weigh 900 million pounds.  Coffee cup waste has grown so dramatically that it now generates a disproportionate amount of all paper and cardboard waste, which makes up 40% of all solid waste going to landfills. Coffee cup waste

 Plastic containers take years to decompose! Use our cup and cut down on plastic waste. Make a difference!

 Still wondering why you should buy our product? Simply put, it feels good to support local forests and local shops… And you’ll look good doing it! Last words