Forest Journalism for a Sustainable Future
Trees absorb carbon dioxide, provide oxygen, create habitat for wildlife, and … fuel jet engines?
A recent Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to Washington, D.C. was powered by a blend of biofuel and traditional jet fuel. The biofuel made up one fifth of the mixture. It was created from the limbs and branches left-over after a forest was logged.
Michael Wolcott is the co-project director of the Northwest Advanced Renewables Alliance, the group that made the biofuel blend. [Read more…]
Big timber is sprouting up in cities in North America and abroad. After years of feasibility studies and design proposals, buildings six stories or taller constructed primarily from pre-engineered wood products are being considered in cities around the world.
In London, one proposal, called the Splinter, would rise to 100 stories. In Chicago, Perkins+Will (in collaboration with Thornton Tomasetti and the University of Cambridge) has designed an 80-story high-rise with 300 duplex apartments. If built, River Beech—a key component of P+W’s master plan for the Riverline development—would be made almost entirely from mass timber. [Read more…]
Click here to read a case study from Franklin Elementary School in Franklin, West Virginia
See the attached pdf for the Murray Grove case study for a nine-wood story wood building.