By Jorge Sanchez
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| (Carcassi et al. 2022) |
Humans are producing gasses that are being released into the atmosphere at an alarming rate, and it's affecting climate change each year. Researchers have a solution to reduce climate change starting with our homes! The construction material that built our homes can be mixed with plant based materials like timber and bamboo materials. These plant based materials can achieve the same quality as cement structures. It preferable for humans to slowly replace cement construction materials with more plant based materials, since it would be less harmful for our atmosphere, and prevent unnecessary pollution from spreading into environment. Though, bamboo and timber would be more costly to transport, and the amount of plant based materials needed to achieve the same results we can get with cement hardly makes it worth the effort to change. Imagine the simple changes we can make to the environment by starting with something as small as plants, like changing the hot climates around the world.
Original Article:
Carcassi OB, Habert G, Malighetti LE, Pittau F. 2022. Material diets for climate-neutral construction. Environ. Sci. Tech. 56(8): 5213–5223
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