Building With Timber Instead Of Steel Could Help Pull Millions Of Tons Of Carbon From The Atmosphere

Kristin Toussaint, Fast Company
Mon, 01/27/2020 - 8:00am

Should the cities of the future be made of wood? Building structures out of wood doesn’t seem like a particularly innovative idea—people have been building wood houses for centuries. But when it comes to new efforts to be sustainable, all-timber construction is the latest advancement. How exactly is a process that requires us to cut down trees more environmentally friendly, though?

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