What Our Buildings Will Look Like in the Future

Ever wondered what our buildings might look like in the future? Right now, the construction industry heavily relies on concrete, but it isn t great for the earth. Join Hank Green for a new episode of SciShow and take a look at what the sustainable architecture of the future might look like! Go to http://curiositystream.com/scishow to start streaming Digits. Use the promo code ‘scishow’ during the sign-up process to get your first 31 days free. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Eric Jensen, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Avi Yashchin, Adam Brainard, Greg, Alex Hackman, Sam Lutfi, D.A. Noe, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Patrick D. Ashmore, charles george, Kevin Bealer, Chris Peters ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-46455844 https://www.wri.org/blog/2018/12/new-global-co2-emissions-numbers-are-they-re-not-good https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/would-you-live-in-a-city-made-of-bone https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2468451119300042 https://www.titech.ac.jp/english/research/stories/creating_artificial_bones.html https://www.britannica.com/science/bone-anatomy/Chemical-composition-and-physical-properties https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4727835/ https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/growing-bones-with-lego https://www.theverge.com/2012/3/16/2876589/lego-mindstorms-artificial-bone-cambridge-university https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28230077 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27255358 https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/synthetic-self-assembling-collagen-for-tissue-engineering/3003878.article https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/09/110908124507.htm https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/tallest-mushroom-tower-in-world-rises-nyc-museum.html https://www.zmescience.com/science/living-bricks-mushrooms-0423432/ https://www.treehugger.com/green-architecture/tallest-mushroom-tower-in-world-rises-nyc-museum.html https://interestingengineering.com/future-construction-mushroom-buildings https://centralconcrete.com/wp-content/themes/centralconcrete/images/cip/35pr.pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2095263517300353 https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/164221-mit-develops-carbon-fiber-lego-bricks-that-can-be-fashioned-into-airplanes-rockets-bridges https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/chemistry/epoxy-resin https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20550340.2019.1639967 http://ashcretech.com/ https://www.cement.org/docs/default-source/fc_concrete_technology/is548-optimizing-the-use-of-fly-ash-concrete.pdf http://ecosmartconcrete.com/?page_id=250 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950061810000206?via%3Dihub http://www.greenspec.co.uk/building-design/bricks/ https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0169131712000245 https://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/asp/jbmb/2010/00000004/00000002/art00005%3bjsessionid=3k9ip2oh2bqos.x-ic-live-03 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2212609017301541 https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0950061810000206?via%3Dihub https://www.researchgate.net/publication/240434984_Clay-based_composite_stabilized_with_natural_polymer_and_fibre https://www.archdaily.com/771767/this-innovative-brick-sucks-pollution-from-the-air-like-a-vacuum-cleaner https://www.architectmagazine.com/awards/r-d-awards/citation-breathe-brick_o ------ Images: https://architecture.calpoly.edu/faculty/trudell http://www.thelivingnewyork.com/index.html https://tinyurl.com/r62wby7 https://tinyurl.com/y6ah6fpa https://tinyurl.com/ry8r8mp https://tinyurl.com/t72ep9w https://tinyurl.com/wlmd78f https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fibers_of_Collagen_Type_I_-_TEM.jpg https://tinyurl.com/y6fu7j2m https://tinyurl.com/umy4mw7 https://tinyurl.com/srjdobs https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/b7b5/c1349c39c51de6f2c3598b8d114fa0f5e7dd.pdf https://tinyurl.com/rla6hne https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/26183.php https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/26184.php?from=170176 https://tinyurl.com/qwcyk7k https://tinyurl.com/uoyfyvg https://tinyurl.com/rqjclxd https://tinyurl.com/wpxug78 https://tinyurl.com/u4756w2