Rare Earth
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- Episode
- Episode 3 - Can we build a better world with wood?
- Broadcast Info
- 2024 (52 mins)
- Description
- 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.
- Genre
- Architecture; Technology; Natural History; Environment
How to cite this record
The Open University, "Rare Earth". https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ou/search/index.php/prog/248190 (Accessed 10 Jan 2025)