Who are <em> you </em> calling barren?

Lauren Sneade reads Rosetta Elkin’s “Plant Life: The Entangled Politics of Afforestation” and asks a controversial question: is the very concept of afforestation rooted in colonial violence?

Back to the future: is wood really that good?

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As timber becomes more widely-used in the construction industry, our assistant editor compares new timber materials to concrete and steel, asking the question ‘is wood good?’