Build? Grow Your House!!!

MIT is up to trouble again. People build furniture and other art out of live trees, so why not build some houses?
"The concept of a living house is really incredibly exciting when you think that people in tropical and semitropical locations have fast-growing trees available," said Richard Reames, an Oregon-based "arborsculptor" who uses grafting techniques to grow living furniture.

Read about the vision of Mitchell Joachim of the Media Lab’s Smart Cities group here via ScienceNewsDen.com.

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Posted: August 2nd, 2006
at 3:42pm by Koookiecrumbles


Categories: myninjaplease,green,home

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