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Murray Grove – the first urban housing project to be constructed entirely from pre-fabricated solid timber.
Image: © Will Pryce
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ever have presentations both
alarmed and inspired me in equal
measure quite like those of Pooran
Desai and Andrew Waugh at our
Future of Living event in April.
Pooran, who is the co-founder
of Bioregional and International
Director of One Planet Communities
set the scene with some of the stark
ecological realities facing us on a
global level.
Some of the most powerful
statistics from Pooran’s presentation
related to the unsustainable
consumption levels of the global
middle-class. Pooran educated us in
inescapably clear language about
how we as a world began to consume
in excess of our planet’s carrying
capacity during the early 90s, and
how if all the world were to live a
lifestyle akin to that of the average
Sustainable
Structures
If all
the world
were to live
a lifestyle
akin to that
of the average
European, we
would need
three planets
to sustain us
C&W’s lead residential researcher Lee Layton
provides his reflections on presentations by
Pooran Desai OBE regarding ‘One Planet
Living’ and Andrew Waugh on innovations in
the use of timber in construction.
By Lee Layton,
Associate Director,
Research, Residential
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