Scaling Resilience Through Community & Collaboration

We must create maximum positive climate and social impact as quickly as possible. This session explores a shared-services cooperative model (also called a producers’ cooperative) for scaling climate-restorative construction. The Seed Collaborative advances bio-based, structural straw panel manufacturing and design/build through collaboration, co-ownership, shared power, and standardized training. Sprouting from New Frameworks’ Seed (Training) Program, participating companies in the Collaborative join as equal members while retaining local autonomy. By sharing sales, marketing, design, R&D, workforce development, and policy efforts, the Collaborative accelerates regional capacity-building and collective impact, offering a replicable alternative to competitive, individualist industry norms.