SCB is Pleased to Have Special Guest, Bob Taylor, Co-Founder of Taylor Guitars at ICCB Sustain and Sustainability – Why a Guitar Company's 100-Year Plan Includes Reforestation
Wednesday, July 24, 12:30 – 13:15 hours
Sustainability Theater, Exhibition Hall, Floor 1
Pioneering acoustic guitar builder Bob Taylor of San Diego-based Taylor Guitars will explain why the global popularity of guitars provides a uniquely powerful platform to promote forest restoration around the world. Bob will shed light on the history of the acoustic guitar industry and its use of different tonewood species; share how the accelerating depletion of forest resources in his lifetime has prompted him to devote the second half of his career to forest stewardship; and detail his involvement in forest restoration initiatives with West African ebony in Cameroon and koa in Hawaii. Bob will also reveal recent scientific discoveries about the ecology of ebony-the result of research he is privately funding. He'll also share his perspective on why socially responsible business practices are an essential component of sustainable forest management, and why Taylor Guitars is developing a 100-year plan.
Chapters Business meeting
Our business meeting will be held on Wednesday July 24, 2019, 13.15 – 14.15 pm (Meeting room 406-407 on level 4). This meeting is focused solely on chapters and chapter affairs, and presents what the chapters committee is all about, who is there, and what the agenda is for chapters in the coming year. It also highlights the diversity of chapter and who they are/what they do; highlight the chapter resources (event and travel grants); and finally, having the ability to ask questions of what the chapters need for the committee for them to feel connected.
Tentative agenda for Chapters Business meeting
- General introductions
- Overview of the chapters committee goals and priorities
- Updates on "best practices" for SCB chapters working document – (Rebecca McCaffery)*
- Chapters/EO Relations – Nathan Spillman
- WiNN - Karla Pelz Serrano
- Challenges/Governance (quarterly meetings)
- Membership drive