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 team to work with a master woodworker to design a history of plants in carved furniture for the main room in the CarbonShack, and to collaborate with an artist to make intricate, sculptural lighting fixtures based on diatoms, the microalgae generating a great deal of the oxygen produced on the planet each year.
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