A material that’s been around since people built shelters—wood—is increasingly being proposed for low- and mid-rise buildings. As an economist who studies forestry and natural resources, I took an ...
Brent Sohngen receives funding from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, the United States Department of Agriculture, the Ohio Department of Higher Education, IGS Energy, and The Nature ...
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The sustainability of mass timber will be determined in part by which forests supply this new demand. Wood buildings should be a requirement of any climate change policy A new meta-study offers the ...
More architects are turning to wood to build their structures and make them more sustainable. In Sweden, a $110 million center was built as a proof of concept for this. Other architects in Sweden are ...
Latin America faces a choice about how to manage its mounting waste challenge. Current trajectories could lead toward ...
A huge, new city is being built in Sweden, but it's not being constructed using steel or concrete — its main building material is wood. Part of the Swedish capital, Stockholm, is set to become the ...