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Sweden leading on using wood to build on a big scale - delivering climate and well-being benefits on a big scale www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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All Labour government’s try the patience of Labour Party members - it’s the inevitable consequence of reality colliding with hope. However animosity to Trump (not the USA) is in the very bones of LP members. The ‘wrong’ USA-UK trade deal could be fatal to Labour. The hormone steaks are high. 😬

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In case you missed it earlier in the week: on.ft.com/3RP87zF Spoiler: wood is a big part of the answer to climate breakdown.

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This is good climate news: on.ft.com/3RP87zF

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The number of books I’ve read twice I can count on one hand. This is one of them. Completed my second reading today. As thought provoking as the first time I read it ten years ago.

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"You boy! What tariff is it today?"

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Lucky me to be shown around the finished Paradise mass timber office build in Vauxhall today. Congratulations to Bywater Properties & all involved. I’d love to work in such a building not least because I like trains! Glulam beams & columns, CLT floor slabs = 1,800tCO2e stored paradise11.co.uk

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Timber’s ability to store massive amounts of carbon in the built environment is akin to the capacity of Carbon Capture & Storage but free of the massive price tag to the taxpayer. redbrickblog.co.uk/blog/

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Hiding in plain sight - a massive carbon removal option - akin in size to CCS - but without cost to the taxpayer - my blog for Labour’s Red Brick:

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Visiting ERNE in Switzerland. They are currently building a hybrid timber & concrete 75m 24 storey office block by the name of ZWHATT adjacent to Regensdorf railway station, see: www.schnetzerpuskas.com/en/projects/...

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Given Trump’s mercurial nature this approach makes sense to me.

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Well, well, well … … although I can’t say I’m surprised. Thankfully plenty of Conservative’s know fossil fuels rightly have no future.

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Terrific piece in The Atlantic, about the parallels between 1930s Germany and what's happening now. "America Is Watching the Rise of a Dual State" www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

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Books

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It wasn’t net zero — it was fossil gas that drove up UK electricity prices. Spot on, @pilitaclark.bsky.social! Gas sets the price most of the time. As @dharavyas.bsky.social Energy UK, says: "It’s the volatile cost of fossil fuels and our dependence on them that have driven up energy bills."

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I've a letter in today's Telegraph. Summary: the UK’s top 10 housebuilders have, are acquiring or are building their own timber-frame factories. 50% of recent homes in England have been built by a company that owns a timber-frame manufacturing business – not a brick, steel or concrete frame one.

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This coming Monday in Brussels: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eu-leaders...

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This event in Brussels has knowledgeable speakers incl. Anna Ervast Öberg of Folkhem who build mid rise mass timber buildings in Sweden folkhem.se/om-oss/ceder... These buildings store carbon & substitute for materials with large climate footprints eg concrete. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eu-leaders...

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Maybe someone in the government has read my book? www.waterstones.com/book/timber/...

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Great news for the climate & the economy. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03...

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A week today in Brussels - Monday 17th March: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eu-leaders...

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The law of unintended consequences at work in politics: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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In case you missed this last week: www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/new-rep...

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Half of world’s CO2 emissions come from 36 fossil fuel firms. Two of these are UK based - BP & Shell. Maybe the green NGOs should be more focused on these two in their campaigning? @foeeurope.bsky.social @wwf.org.uk @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/environment/...

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I will be attending this interesting event coming up in Brussels on Monday 17th March www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/eu-leaders...

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Good to see agroforestry being consulted on in the UK government’s live English land use consultation see Q.5 lnkd.in/eKrxsQGs Agroforestry is a win-win, see agforward.eu @thesoilassociation.bsky.social @agroforestry.bsky.social

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If you are in search of an uplifting report to read, look no further: www.architectsjournal.co.uk/news/new-rep...

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So even Republican voters blame Trump & Vance for yesterday’s argument in the Oval Office.

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While BP aspire to return us to the dark ages there are the enlightened who can see another path. Congratulations to London-Berlin architects dRMM on their recent report aimed at driving down carbon emissions drmmstudio.com/news-post/re...

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Looking for some good climate news? Big timber buildings are healthy buildings to live and work in. Plus they store carbon (a removal) & they substitute out problematic materials such as concrete. Here you go: drmmstudio.com/news-post/re...

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I've just signed "Marks & Spencer - stop advertising on GB News" - Will you support the campaign too? actionstorm.org/petitions/ma... @StopFundingHate

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#CONFORAWARDS live from Edinburgh the Confederation of Forest Industries Awards.

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Nature-based 10 storey apartments in Malmo, Sweden under construction. Timber frame and straw insulation. Storing carbon in the frame 👍 Storing carbon in the insulation 👍 Substituting for higher embodied carbon materials 👍 Providing a healthy living environment 👍 www.boplatssyd.se/nyproduktion...

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By 2050 BP & Shell either no longer exist or have transitioned to green energy companies. That trajectory means year on year less fossil, more renewables. This decision by BP is (as was Shell's) in contradiction with a journey to net zero. Conclusion: boycott them. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

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She’s considerably thicker than the Wall.

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"In the 2023 World Energy Investment analysis, the International Energy Agency reported a mere 4% of oil & gas companies' upstream investment went into lower-emissions sources of energy or decarbonisation technologies." p157

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It will be sadly ironic if as a result of the terrible fires more LA homes end up being built from concrete. Why? Concrete is responsible for 8% of the global carbon emissions that are the cause of climate change, the exacerbater of the fires. It’s a death cycle. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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This is an important book especially given what’s happening politically in the USA. My review published here: revolve.media/between/lang...

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The submission made by the Confederation of Timber Industries UK to the Environmental Audit Committee's inquiry into 'Environmental sustainability and housing growth' has been published. committees.parliament.uk/work/8638/en... & scroll down.

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"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." Groucho Marx and Mark Zuckerberg

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Basically Ros finds that Musk is a repetitive liar.

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Not too late for some new year resolutions that will benefit our children and grandchildren.

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Thanks to David Smith MP for North Northumberland for visiting A&J Scott’s sawmill near Wooler today. Timber is the material that can deliver low carbon homes. redbrickblog.co.uk/author/paulb...

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Why did it take me so long to get to this book? Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming. So many of the same tactics are still used to promote false solutions for climate change - and sow doubt in real ones.

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In Europe this approach to building on top of existing buildings is increasingly referred to as: www.optoppen.org

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In 2009 London held the record for the world's tallest timber apartment block at 9-storeys. Today many countries have overtaken us, the latest being France where on the banks of the Seine 16-storeys of glulam beech have risen up. www.ribaj.com/buildings/la...

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