{"id":158665,"date":"2023-02-21T12:25:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-21T18:25:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/this-startup-uses-grass-to-build-energy-efficient-building-panels"},"modified":"2023-02-21T12:25:51","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T18:25:51","slug":"this-startup-uses-grass-to-build-energy-efficient-building-panels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/this-startup-uses-grass-to-build-energy-efficient-building-panels","title":{"rendered":"This startup uses grass to build energy-efficient building panels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/this-startup-uses-grass-to-build-energy-efficient-building-panels2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This innovative startup is revolutionizing architecture \u2014 with building panels made out of fastest-growing perennial grass on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>With housing shortages in need of quick fixes, the manufacturing industry is facing a conundrum: how to source materials and build structures while cutting down on emissions. The answer lies with sustainable construction \u2014 not only could it help reduce our environmental impact, but it also keeps costs low during implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a new startup named Plantd achieved a milestone of building ultra-strong building panels out of the fastest-growing perennial grass on Earth \u2014 the best sustainable alternative to construction.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Building materials stronger than wood<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.plantdmaterials.com\/\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">Plantd<\/a> recently developed a sustainable solution to capturing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere \u2013 long perennial grass. This rapid-growth plant can reach lengths of 20 \u2014 30 feet in just one year, making it an ideal choice for building materials.<\/p>\n<p>This type of grass does not need replanting every season and can store large amounts more CO2 than trees. Due to this, Plantd believes that these plants could help in reducing the effects caused by global warming faster than traditional methods.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/this-startup-uses-grass-to-build-energy-efficient-building-panels\">Continue reading \u201cThis startup uses grass to build energy-efficient building panels\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This innovative startup is revolutionizing architecture \u2014 with building panels made out of fastest-growing perennial grass on Earth. With housing shortages in need of quick fixes, the manufacturing industry is facing a conundrum: how to source materials and build structures while cutting down on emissions. The answer lies with sustainable construction \u2014 not only could [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1497,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-158665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-energy","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158665\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}