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A New American Harvest: Carbon Storage and Home Building

This webinar builds on a recent study from RMI that explores manufacturing building products from upcycled biomass to turn undervalued by-products into valuable carbon-storing products for home builders across the United States.

What You’ll Learn:

  • What bio-based products are available today, and coming tomorrow
  • What bio-based feedstocks exist in the US
  • The climate science behind carbon storage
  • The tools to help you measure and track carbon storage
  • The carbon storage strategies available to homeowners and builders today

Wednesday, July 9, 2025
2:00 pm Eastern

With: Chris Magwood, Manager of Carbon-Free Buildings at RMI and Director of HomebuildersCAN

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Chris Magwood 300x300About our presenter:

Chris Magwood is working to help create a world where buildings are a leading part of the climate solution instead of a major contributor to climate change and doing so in a way that makes the world more equitable, healthy, beautiful, and efficient.

In 2022, Chris joined the Rocky Mountain Institute’s Embodied Carbon initiative within RMI’s Carbon-Free Buildings team. There he leads efforts on HomebuildersCAN, a unique community of practice for homebuilders working to decarbonize, and the development of RESNET/ANSI Standard 1550 for the measurement and reporting of embodied carbon for home.

In 2019, he helped to establish Builders for Climate Action and has been leading development of the BEAM carbon estimator tool for low- rise construction.

At BfCA, he co-authored four major studies on embodied carbon in homebuilding. From 2011-2022, Chris was a director and teacher at The Endeavour Centre, a not-for-profit sustainable building school. Prior to that, he ran a design/build firm specializing in carbon-storing, healthy, energy efficiency new construction and renovations.

Chris has authored seven books on sustainable building. His latest book, Building Beyond Zero: New Ideas for Carbon-Smart Architecture, is co-authored with Bruce King and published by Island Press.