Paul Brannen 🇺🇦 @PaulBrannenNE@respublicae.eu
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Working to decarbonise built environment
Director Public Affairs @CEIBois, EOS & @TimberDevUK
Former MEP, Agri & Envi Committees
Joined Apr 2022
RT @JimBethell: Par 224. Judge says the suggestion that Frosties should not be regarded as a less healthy product because of the nutritional value of the milk .. is surprising".
"SURPRISING"!?
That's Judge-speak for "total rubbish".
Ouch!
Do lawyers give refunds?🔥🔥
5/8
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“Absolutely there’ll be 40 brand new NHS hospitals and each one will be this big and made from cardboard” https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2019/sep/29/from-40-hospitals-to-six-tories-nhs-numbers-dont-add-up @ianpeacock
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RT @SustainableTall: Restoration and extension of a former gin distillery in London, from 1957. The extension is built of mass timber, facade clad in recycled brick.
69% of the original building is #RetroFirst saving 1,709 tonnes of embodied carbon
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1543933171556810755
Trees are quite simply amazing. For further revelations I can recommend: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28256439-the-hidden-life-of-trees
@campbellclaret @jonsnowC4 @DeborahMeaden
RT @MichaelWarbur17: One tree was cut years ago and the big one has been holding onto and feeding it ever since.
They "wake up" together in the spring and "go to sleep" together in the autumn.🌳
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Note the importance of buildings new and old becoming essentially carbon neutral - that will be regarding both energy use and embodied carbon in the building, renovation & insulation materials.
Note we are way off track to do this.
RT @edking_I: Useful @IEA pathway for #netzero in context of @G7 energy & #climate negotiations currently underway.
Just 13 years till advanced economies need to be on zero emission ⚡️⚡️⚡️
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RT @andyheald: “The Cambridge-led report called for a greater advocacy for material re-use, especially emphasising the role of timber and similar low-carbon materials in a climate-sensitive circular economy.” @PaulBrannenNE
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RT @IrelandEmbGB: “This unilateralism flies in the face of the principle of partnership at the heart of the Good Friday Agreement”
Ireland’s Ambassador to the UK @AdrianGONeill responds to a @FT piece by Foreign Secretary Truss on the Protocol.
👉https://www.ft.com/content/8a3a6791-989b-4b8b-b6a7-e67875deb305?shareType=nongift
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Interesting visit yesterday to Newcastle University’s Cockle Park Farm who have commenced an agroforestry trial involving strips of willow & poplar through wheat. @UniofNewcastle @NCLBusiness @agricology @Clanrivers @pworms
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@rayofoghlu Newcastle University’s Cockle Park Farm testing different agroforestry options centred on strips of willow & poplar, currently running through wheat
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RT @RichardJMurphy: A long time ago @jechristensen56 and I as cofounders of the Tax Justice Network suggested that tax haven activity - including in the City of London - was a direct attack on democracy. It’s taken a long time for the world to wake up to this, but we were right.
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RT @SustainableTall: Summary of progress against key indicators of climate change by @theCCCuk
No indicators related to buildings are considered ‘on track’
https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/2022-progress-report-to-parliament/
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RT @theCCCuk: Today, we publish our latest assessment of UK progress in reducing emissions. Emissions rose 4% in 2021 - now is the time to move from ambition to the delivery of promised action to tackle #climatechange. Read our new report: https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/2022-progress-report-to-parliament/
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Worth a read: 'Building to net zero: costing carbon in construction' from the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee.
Top proposal: undertake whole-life carbon assessments of buildings so the industry can start controlling this carbon.
https://committees.parliament.uk/publications/22427/documents/165446/default/
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Looking forward to visiting soon. Agroforestry has a key role to play in the landscape changes necessary to tackle climate change and biodiversity loss.
RT @ramskirism: Great day for our Agroforestry workshop at Cockle Park farm. It may not look much now but in 3 years, this strip will be having it’s first cutting of willow/ poplar on a short rotation coppice providing material for biomass & forage for livestock diversifying the …
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@WHurst1 @whatbutlersaw Retrofit the existing M&S Oxford Street building and then build on top in wood. Lots of examples of this approach: https://www.swedishwood.com/publications/wood-magazine/2020-2/four-lightweight-extensions-demonstrate-sustainable-development/
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RT @EvesHill: @Groundswellaguk
Putting straight into practice the advice from @Ben_Raskin making Ramial wood chip ideal for Johnson Sue composter #soilhealth #regenerativeagriculture
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@ConcreteOntario You need more trees.
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You need more trees.
RT @ConcreteOntario: It is days like the last 2 days in Ontario that really highlight the need for #UrbanPlanners ~ #MunicipalEngineers ~ #Architects ~ #TransportationEngineers ~ #Developers ~ and others
to consider heat island effect in urban design.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/2021/08/03/opinion/solutions-extreme-heat-can-be-found-our-streets/
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RT @SoilAssociation: 1pm, Agricology Tent, #Groundswell22
What will it take for agroforestry to become the norm on English farms?
Our head of agroforestry @ben_raskin joins @OrgResCent, @WoodlandTrust & @abacusagri to discuss
🐦🔗: https://nitter.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1539935461552046084
Unofficial automated mirror. No copyright asserted. ∎ Working to decarbonise built environment
Director Public Affairs @CEIBois, EOS & @TimberDevUK
Former MEP, Agri & Envi Committees
Joined Apr 2022
