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                                                                              Use a tree fork,
                           EVENTS                                        save concrete carbon


         April 5-7, DesignCon, Santa Clara, Calif.,
         designcon.com                                          CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Concern about
                                                                climate change has focused significant
         April 25-29, Components for Military and               attention on the buildings sector, in
         Space Electronics, virtual, tjgreenllc.                particular on the extraction and pro-
         com/cmse/                                              cessing of construction materials.

         April 26-27, SEMI - MEMS and Sensors Tech-             Carbon sequestration
         nical Congress, Berkeley, Calif., semi.org             The concrete and steel industries together
                                                                are responsible for as much as 15 per-
         May 1-4, TestConX, Mesa, Arizona, test-                cent of global carbon dioxide emissions. In
         conx.org
                                                                contrast, wood provides a natural form of
         May 2-5, SEMI - Advanced Semiconductor                 carbon sequestration, so there’s a move to
         Manufacturing Conference, Sarasota Springs,            use timber instead.
         N.Y., semi.org
                                                                Indeed, some countries are calling for
         May 6-8, Electronica China, Shanghai, China,           public buildings to be made at least partly
         electronica-china.com/en                               from timber, and large-scale timber build-
                                                                ings have been appearing around the
         May 11-13, InterSolar Europe, Munich, Ger-             world.
         many, intersolar.de/home


         May-20-22, ChipEx, Tel Aviv, Israel, chipex.
         co.il





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          MCT Worldwide              mctint.com
          MEPTEC                     meptec.org                 Tree forks, often ground up for mulch, can be effective load-bear-
          Mirror Semiconductor       mirrorsemi.com             ing platforms. (MIT)
          OKins Electronics          okinsglobal.com
          Signal Integrity           signalin.com               Observing those trends, Dr. Caitlin Mueller,
          TestConX                   testconx.org                       an associate professor of architecture and
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