THE NEW CARBON ARCHITECTURE: Building to cool the climate

BRUCE KING, New Society Publishers, 2017

We asked the Green & Healthy Maine HOMES advisory panel to share what they’re reading these days, and which books have had a profound impact on how they approach their work.

Recommended by Dan Kolbert (Kolbert Building / Author, Pretty Good House): Like never before in history, buildings can become part of the climate solution. With biomimicry and innovation, we can pull huge amounts of carbon out of the atmosphere and lock it up as walls, roofs, foundations, and insulation. We can literally make buildings out of sky with a massive positive impact.

The New Carbon Architecture is a paradigm- shifting tour of the innovations in architecture and construction that are making this happen. Office towers built from advanced wood products; affordable, low-carbon concrete alternatives; plastic cleaned from the oceans and turned into building blocks. We can even grow insulation and bricks!

A tour de force from the leaders in the field, The New Carbon Architecture will fire the imagination of architects, engineers, builders, policy makers and everyone else captivated by the possibility of architecture that heals the climate and produces safer, healthier and more beautiful buildings.

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