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It typically takes less than a tenth of the energy, fuel, and effort to make something from local green wood compared to using imported kiln-dried wood bought in a lumberyard, and over fifty and often hundreds of times less energy, fuel, and pollution compared to metal and plastics. Even after we count the energy consumed making steam, working unseasoned wood in this way is massively efficient and the objects you make will have a much lower embodied energy, carbon footprint, and pollution quotient, and so on, compared to almost anything you can buy from a shop. A large part of my interest in steam bending is the alternative route to making that the process offers. The starting point can be fresh local wood (sometimes actual branches from your garden, as you will see in this book), and the final results are useful, beautiful curved shapes with a moisture content the same as kiln-dried wood.