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Movement turns abandoned housing into beautiful furniture, fighting climate change and growing jobs in the process
Baltimore-based lumber company Brick and Board is anything but run of the mill. While fine wood furniture often comes with an environmental price, their warehouse is full of wood from urban areas where downed trees and old buildings might otherwise ends up in landfills. A lot of this lumber was harvested around the Civil War, founder Max Pollock told CBS News Errol Barnett. And a lot of the trees that, you know, were turned into this lumber really started growing probably in the 1500s.