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‘Timber Cities’ Might Help Decarbonize the World

New research suggests that using wood for construction could avoid 100 gigatons of CO2 emissions through 2100, but building skylines of timber requires careful forest planning.

By Bob Berwyn

Constructing new timber framed houses in Echuca, Australia. Credit: Ashley Cooper/Construction Photography/Avalon/Getty Images
A student demonstrates the semi-transparent view through the solar cell. The new manufacturing process could enable meter-scale electricity-producing windows. Credit: Silvia Cardarelli, Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Michigan

Inside Clean Energy: What’s Hotter than Solar Panels? Solar Windows.

By Dan Gearino

Plaque at the City University of New York (CUNY) Headquarters in New York City. Credit: Erik McGregor/LightRocket via Getty Images

When it Comes to Reducing New York City Emissions, CUNY Flunks the Test

By James Pothen

A person cooks over a gas stove on Oct. 28, 2021, in Madrid, Spain. Credit: Cezaro De Luca/Europa Press via Getty Images

Gas Stoves in the US Emit Methane Equivalent to the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of Half a Million Cars

By Phil McKenna

Dar-Lon Chang, who was an engineer for ExxonMobil for more than 15 years, left his career in the fossil fuel industry in Houston and moved to the Geos Neighborhood, a geosolar development in Arvada, Colorado, with his wife and daughter. Credit: Michael Kodas/Inside Climate News

A Dream of a Fossil Fuel-Free Neighborhood Meets the Constraints of the Building Industry

By Nicholas Kusnetz

A couple look at Paris skyline from the Montmartre area in Paris, on March 15, 2020. Credit: Stefano Rellandini/AFP via Getty Images

Warming Trends: Best-Smelling Vegan Burgers, the Benefits of Short Buildings and Better Habitats for Pollinators

By Katelyn Weisbrod

Yohanny Cespedes interacts with her daughter as she prepares breakfast on a gas stove on Sept. 12, 2019 in Lawrence, Massachusetts. Credit: Angela Rowlings/MediaNews Group/Boston Herald via Getty Images

Inside Clean Energy: Which State Will Be the First to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings?

By Dan Gearino

Smoke from California wildfires hangs over the San Francisco skyline in San Francisco, California, on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2020. Credit: Michael Short/Bloomberg via Getty Images

The Fight to Change US Building Codes

By Emma Foehringer Merchant

Kristen Taddonio confers with the CU Boulder students working on the home they were constructing for her and her husband in Fraser, Colorado, which was the students' 2021 Solar Decathlon entry. Credit: Casey A. Cass/University of Colorado

A Colorado Home Wins the Solar Decathlon, But Still Helps Cook the Planet

By Phil McKenna

Contractors work on single-family homes under construction in the Cadence Park development of The Great Park Neighborhoods in Irvine, California, on April 14, 2021. Credit: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images

California Proposal Embraces All-Electric Buildings But Stops Short of Gas Ban

By Dan Gearino

The Los Angeles skyline is seen during twilight on Aug. 21, 2013 in California. Credit: Joe Klamar/AFP via Getty Images

Coal Phase-Down Has Lowered, Not Eliminated Health Risks From Building Energy, Study Says

By Marianne Lavelle

The San Fransisco Board of Supervisors voted unanimously on Tuesday to ban natural gas in new buildings, meaning that stoves, furnaces and water heaters will no longer burn gas. Credit: Arterra/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

San Francisco Becomes the Latest City to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings, Citing Climate Effects

By Kristoffer Tigue

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