“Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests”

Can we reconnect housing to sustainably managed local and regional forests? In “Slow Wood” on Monday, July 20 at 7:00pm at the Walden Woods Project, Brandeis University Environmental Studies Professor Emeritus Brian Donahue will talk about how he and his family built a timber frame house straight from the woods on their Massachusetts farm, utilizing “low grade” trees through “worst first” ecological forestry. Can this be replicated across rural areas, and what does it suggest about the larger challenge of supplying homes for cities and suburbs?