Haystack Book Festival- Building Local Building Green

Brian Donahue, author of Slow Wood: Greener Building from Local Forests, talks with Great Mountain Forest’s executive director, Mike Zarfos, about the connection between American houses and local woodlands.

Donahue and Zarfos will talk about the relationship between humans and forests through responsible, sustainable use of local and regional wood in home building and offer a blueprint and stewardship plan for how to live more responsibly with the woods; they will suggest a sustainable approach to both forestry and building centered on tightly connected ecological and social values.