Paul Brannen 🇺🇦 @PaulBrannenNE@respublicae.eu

@LydiaCollas @ipapernews Depends what you plant. Willow can be used for biomass & because it flowers annually it supports a large insect population. In one piece of 1980s research from Oxford University willow topped the list of all trees for biodiversity re insects, pushing oak into second place.

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You can tell it’s Easter bank holiday weekend in the U.K. because:
1. I’ve cut the grass for the first time this year
2. I’m now frozen.

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But strangely the Red Tractor doesn't tell you if the UK farmer received a fair price for their produce.
RT @RedTractorFood: Red Tractor covers your food and drink's entire journey.

#FarnedWithCare #LookForTheLogo #TVAdvert

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@StephensonC @emilymnorton @_FutureCountry @jake_fiennes @EdenSwimmer Having thought about how do we plant more trees to produce more timber to deploy to decarbonise the built environment you inevitably end up having to consider land use more broadly.

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@BurchertMichael Is it being allocated to Twitter users that an algorithm has deduced could be open to the idea of reintroducing the wolf?

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@emilymnorton @_FutureCountry @jake_fiennes @EdenSwimmer A broadly supported land use strategy which reconciles the need for 1) food 2) biomass incl timber 3) biodiversity 4) carbon sequestration & storage 5) public access for health (physical & mental). All indicators to rise. Maximising synergies key. Five silos would be a failure.

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@CEMEX @TECcampusMTY @theGCCA How much embodied carbon?
https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2019/feb/25/concrete-the-most-destructive-material-on-earth

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@JoeWStanley I agree Joe but we also need to factor in carbon storage, biomass production & public access for health both mental & physical. Fortunately this Venn diagram throws up lots of overlaps eg agroforestry. Overall food production mustn't go down. Hence we need a land use strategy.

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RT @JoeGiddings4: They really are going all in for wood in Sweden. Look at these two 10 & 12 story cedar shingle clad housing blocks in Stockholm by General Architecture

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Looking forward to this Easter read. “There are around half a million miles of hedgerow in England; that’s almost twice as much as the length of all the tarred roads” ⁦@jake_fiennes⁩ ⁦@adambedders⁩⁦@BainbridgeFarms⁩ ⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦⁦@ianedwardbrown⁩

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@JurajMikurcik Geographically true but Russia does have more trees than any other country in the world.

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@JoeWStanley @BenGoldsmith @RedTractorFood The main downside to the Red Tractor Mark, unlike the Fairtrade Mark, is that it doesn’t include ‘a fair price paid to the farmer’. When I questioned this as an MEP I was told by the Red Tractor staff they’d never been asked by their Board to look into this. The NFU are on Board.

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@lloydalter @SustainableTall It might be more accurate to state what % of the annual increment it was of the country in which the build occurred ie ‘It amounts to 0.0000001% of what we grew this year’ or whatever!

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@Nndroid Agree. Lawson also paved the way for the privatisation of our water utilities which has ultimately led to our rivers being full of poo and our beaches being too dangerous to swim from due to the sea being contaminated with poo too.

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@GreenAllianceUK There's nothing wrong in this piece but it fails to mention there will be an extra 2 billion people in the world by 2050 who will all need somewhere to live (it's a human right). As it stands they'll live in concrete & steel high rise = huge emissions. Timber the only alternative

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RT @doug_parr: Schiphol airport is banning private jets, because they create disproportionate noise and CO2

Also abandoning plans for another runway and releasing the land it would have been built on

https://nieuws.schiphol.nl/schiphol-gaat-het-stiller-schoner-en-beter-doen-nachtsluiting-verbod-op-privejets-en-mensen-centraal/?

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@SustainableTall And the bottom third of the structure is reinforced concrete ... which means I'm puzzled as to why it's being called 'the world's tallest timber tower'. Surely that's in Norway?

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@Ben_Raskin @chelseagreen @SoilAssociation @gardenorganicuk @OGAgrowers @Permaculture_uk @UK_Orch_Network Books also store carbon.

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RT @andyheald: Important interview.
We need to urgently move away from extractive energy intensive industries and towards a circular bioeconomy

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RT @andyheald: “In the 12 months prior to the end of March 2022, just 2,260 hectares of new woodland were created, well short of the 7,000 ha annual goal.”

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