by faster | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: February 25, 2019 SNIP: In the time it takes you to read this sentence, the global building industry will have poured more than 19,000 bathtubs of concrete. By the time you are halfway through this article, the volume would fill the Albert...
by faster | Feb 25, 2019 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: February 25, 2019 SNIP: Cement, the key component of concrete and one of the most widely used manmade materials, is now the cornerstone of global construction. It has shaped the modern environment, but its production has a massive footprint...
by faster | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog
SOURCE: The Guardian DATE: July 1, 2018 SNIP: Our insatiable appetite for new buildings, roads, coastal defences, glass, fracking, even electronics, threatens the places we are designed by evolution to love most. The world consumes between 30 and 40bn tonnes of...
