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Episode 8: CarbonShack Design: What Connects Us
The biophilic designs are brought together across many of the CarbonShack finishes — fabrics, carved wood doors and furniture, tile and custom decorat...
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Episode 7: CarbonShack Design: The Pure Magic of Chloroplasts
The wonder of photosynthesis as the basis of all life as we know it, not to mention an essential way that carbon dioxide is sequestered, sparks the te...
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Episode 6: CarbonShack Design: Building in an Age of Climate Change
Developing the interior finishes continues as the CarbonShack team works with artisans to further the project’s use of salvaged wood in flooring, wood...
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Episode 5: CarbonShack Design: Living with the Invisible
Transitioning from the construction phase to the design of interior finishes, the CarbonShack team works with an artist to dive into the microscopic w...
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Episode 4: Surprise CO2 Savings
Skinning the home’s exterior with salvaged clay roof tiles, stone, brick and reclaimed redwood shingles yields surprising savings in CO2, prompting th...
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Episode 3: Salvaging is the New Forestry
The CarbonShack takes shape as the team frames the house and discovers that some of their salvaged lumber came from trees dating back to the 1400s.
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Beyond Sustainability: Homes That Heal
Is it enough to build sustainably or do we need to adopt a regenerative approach? Where sustainability focuses on reducing negative impacts, a r...
Episode 2: From The Ground Up
Starting with the foundation, the team tries to measure the carbon dioxide emissions of building the CarbonShack.
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Episode 1: Follow The Dream
CarbonShack is born when Home Front Build sets out to salvage materials from a house built in the early 1900s and give them a new life.
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