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Did you know that IKEA sources 84% of its wood from Europe with Poland being its biggest single country supplier? So while IKEA is as Swedish as ABBA your wooden bookshelf, wardrobe, bed etc is proportionately 29% Polish, 13% Lithuanian and only 10% Swedish.

An information board at Arklow station, south of Wicklow. Brilliant last line reads “After 20 years as a training college for forestry students, it was established as an open prison”. ⁦

Build With Wood event in Wicklow, Ireland underway. #BuildWithWood Focus on getting more wood into more projects especially some large builds to show what is possible.

Kirsten Haggart from Waugh Thistleton “In the next 35 years we will double the volume of our built environment”. Hence we need systemic change in how we build if we aren’t going to ‘blow’ the climate budget on construction. #BuildWithWood

Published today: enterprise.gov.ie/en/publication…

Glenfort’s timber petrol station in Ireland.

Today, 35 years ago, we had to have a word with Mike Gatting: m.youtube.com/watch?v=LYszwB…

Wood a key ingredient in this year’s Stirling Prize win. “The building also used construction materials such as cross-laminated timber to reduce its carbon footprint”. bbc.co.uk/news/entertain…

I’ve lost count of how many sawmills I’ve visited in the last 11 years but this is the first where a whole production line is to be found inside a 100% timber building. Great use of CLT by BERGENE HOLM AS in Norway. It smells great too! ⁦Structural Timber⁩ ⁦Structural Timber Magazine⁩

All set for the 73rd International Softwood Conference this year held in Norway.

All set for the 73rd International Softwood Conference being held this year in Oslo, Norway.

£104bn saved by moving to renewables from UCL study It concludes that sustained investment in wind has significantly reduced overall fossil fuel dependence and household energy bills.

Disappointed to hear Craig Bennett scare mongering about the possibility of “intensive conifer plantations” on the Rothbury Estate in Northumberland on BBC Radio 4 Today No one plants like that anymore as Doddington proves & as the Wildlife Trusts know Confor The Wildlife Trusts

Civility in Britain is inevitable. Just a question of enough tea.