The author of A Forest Journey: The Story of Wood and Civilization, writes a series for Miller-McCune on the world’s first energy crisis: peak wood. Part I: The Tree That Changed the World Part II: Wood and Civilization Part III: Peak Wood and the Bronze Age Part IV: Peak Wood Brings on the Industrial Revolution and the Age of Fossil Fuels From the first cave society to the end of the 18th century, the world lived in the Biomass Age with wood as its primary building material and fuel. England was first to leave the Era of Wood, embracing the fossil fuel coal at the dawn of the ... Read More