Urban Wood: Somerville’s Wood Construction Legacy and Future Carbon Neutrality by Team Urban Wood

As a carpenter and a woodworker, as well as a hiker and admirer of trees for their beauty and utility, I have sometimes wished we would stop using trees for buildings, it seems to have encouraged the destruction of forests. Having said that, I support this proposal because think we can learn to re engineer and develop creative ways to use wood and grow trees and other organic building materials in a regenerative way. The ideal, for me, would be a future of forests that had been planned and integrated with our development in a sustainable way and a sustainable pace. This is a good concept and needs only to incorporate a full life cycle impact analysis that indicates a path to avoid resource depletion.