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URL:https://www.walden.org/events/slow-wood-greener-building-from-local-fo
 rests-with-brian-donahue/
SUMMARY:Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests with Brian Donahue
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a presentation on Brian Donahue's latest book Slow 
 Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests\n\nAbout the presentation: Can w
 e reconnect housing to sustainably-managed local and regional forests? 
 Through the colonial period\, houses were mostly constructed and heated
  directly from local woodlands—Walden Woods was a notable example. Du
 ring the nineteenth century the lumber industry was transformed to a na
 tional system of large-scale extraction\, with devastating consequences
 . Today\, very little of our housing ties to diverse forests that provid
 e multiple ecological benefits. Should it? \n\nSlow Wood describes how Br
 ian and his family built a timber frame house straight from the woods on t
 heir 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 fo
 r cities and suburbs? Join us for a historically-informed conversation abo
 ut conservation and housing in modern America. \n\nAbout Brian Donahue: B
 rian Donahue is professor emeritus of American Environmental Studies at Br
 andeis University.  Brian is a historian and an expert on sustainable for
 estry and agriculture with a particular emphasis on the New England region
 .  Brian’s book\, The Great Meadow\, examines land use and agriculture 
 in colonial Concord.  He is co-author of three reports that promote an in
 tegrated vision of farm and forest conservation and stewardship: Wildlands
  and Woodlands\, A New England Food Vision\, and Beyond the Illusion of Pr
 eservation. Most recently\, he published Slow Wood: Greener Building from 
 Local Forests (Yale University Press).\n\nWhen: Monday\, July 20\, 2026 7:
 00-8:00pm EST.\n\nWhere: The Walden Woods Project\, Lincoln\, MA (address 
 provided upon registration)\n\n\n\n&nbsp\;
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