New Videos Illustrate Wood Heat Benefits for Forests, Recreation, and Residents

Series shows how wood heat markets support good forest management.

The Northern Forest Center is rolling out the first videos in a new series that tells the story of how people from Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine are connected to modern wood heat.

The “From Woods to Warmth” video series, produced by the Feel Good Heat campaign, is a multimedia campaign that features eight perspectives on how opting for modern wood heat, rather than fossil fuels, bolsters sustainable forest practices, generates rural employment, and offers cost savings to those who embrace it.

In featuring these personal narratives from across the Northern Forest, the series raises awareness and engages audiences by localizing, as well as humanizing, wood as a heating source. Audiences have the opportunity to learn why local, renewable, modern wood heat is a heat to feel good about.

Wood heat is important because it’s a renewable resource that’s not reliant on fossil fuels - it promotes wildlife, promotes clean water, and promotes healthy ecosystems.”

– Chuck Loring, Director of the Department of Natural Resources, Penobscot Nation

Explore the Series

The series begins with “Stewarding the Forest” with perspectives from a landowner, forester, and environmentalist, before delving into “Developing the Renewable Resource” on how wood heat is processed and packaged before hearing from three wood heat users at three different scales in “Heating Sustainably.”

“Most people aren’t aware of the full value of using wood heat,” Kelsey Seeker, the Center’s Marketing Director, said. “By using an engaging storytelling approach, we can take people into the forest, through processing, and finally to using wood heat to show that it provides benefits at every point in its journey.”

Along with other Feel Good Heat tools, like the state fact sheets and animated cost comparison videos, a library of images and assets will be available later for industry partners, organizations, state and local governments to use to promote wood heat.

Stay tuned for an in-depth look at each of the episodes in the coming months!