Uploaded on 2019-06-27 by Taqwan_Sequoia

Industrialization and globalization opened up humming networks of trade, and the volume of inputs expanded in diversity and scale. Now, due to economics of production and trade, a single company can own a chain of stores which purvey all the materials needed to build a house with items sourced from all over the world. The environmental costs, however, are externalized by these companies and the cheap products end up in a long list of unsustainable production and use. Innovative ideas to incorporate more local raw material sources, and the fabrication of new products from recycled materials are needed, and are being developed. Different patterns of urban design can capitalize on the real demand for making construction more environmentally sustainable- and more specifically tailored to the seasonal needs of the respective location. The construction of this part of this freeway likely had multiple inputs- paint and asphalt materials- that weren't only produced in the United States. Even the vehicles which paved the road likely had parts in its construction that were either produced or assembled in another country. Even though this is just one lane of a road, in the past would be entirely locally sourced, but now it's globally sourced.