Can We Build a Better World with Wood?
Is wood the key to healthier people and a cooler planet?
Rare Earth · BBC Radio 4
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Show Notes
From the emotional balm of a walk in the woods to the first wooden skyscrapers, Tom Heap and Helen Czerski ask if we can replace a world of concrete and steel with a wooden utopia. Will the Wood Age be healthier for us and for the planet?
Michael Ramage of Cambridge University explains how the development of Cross-Laminated Timber makes it possible to build pretty much any building with wood while Tim Searchinger of Princeton University argues that turning forests into construction material has a high carbon cost for the planet.
Produced by Alasdair Cross for BBC Audio Wales and West in conjunction with the Open University