Bio-Based Materials and the Future of Sustainable Construction

Earth Endeavours Newsletter For much of human history, construction relied on locally available resources such as straw, timber, and earth. As the climate crisis intensifies, materials research is turning toward biological processes and slower cycles of production. Industrialization replaced these with concrete and steel, materials whose production depends on large-scale extraction and high energy input. Cement is widely estimated to account for about eight percent of global carbon emissions,...