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 – 13:20 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.
https://conbio.org/mini-.../iccb-2019/program/special-speaker/
For more information on Bob Taylor/Taylor Guitars' presentation, see below:
1. ICCB 2019 website ( https://conbio.org/mini-sites/iccb-2019/ ). Bob is listed or linked under the Program Tab in two places.
A. Special Speaker Tab
B. Sustainability Theater Tab
2. ICCB Digital Program is now on the ICCB2019 website under the Program Tab, Program Information - Digital Program (https://indd.adobe.com/view/1e86adc1-d444-42a5-8737-368864f49687). The digital ICCB program has a full page ad for Bob's sustainability presentation- see Page 7.