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
Re @MomentumHexham @KiMcGuinness @UKLabour Who are you? Name and picture please.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1681016904553512960
Framing the forestry story as a key part of the battle against climate change will be key to winning over public opinion. Wood’s ability to sequester & store carbon is impressive plus it can substitute for carbon intensive alternatives eg concrete & steel. @TimberDevUK @CEIBois
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Forestry Journal: 'Sobering' report on support for forestry 'must be wake up call'
📎 https://tinyurl.com/yj2pkytu https://t.co/Di38FKf8LA
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1680986817963671554
Re @MomentumHexham @TimberDevUK @CEIBois How about putting your name & your face on your tweets rather than hiding behind the name of yet another in a long line of entryist organisations that the Labour Party has had to deal with over the years.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1680999578017906691
Re @MomentumHexham @TimberDevUK @CEIBois And your name is? Come on don’t be a coward.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1681000775395205121
As a single oneoff action insulating your loft must be one of the most significant climate actions you can take. But to maximise its climate impact you need to use a nature based material that stores carbon eg wood fibre, hemp, mycelium. Mineral wool, polystyrene stores no carbon
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One Home: A simple spring DIY job that will save you £hundreds?
Insulate your loft and make a BIG impact on #energybills.
Read John's story about insulating his loft here: https://bit.ly/3GRUoUx
#KeepTheHeat https://t.co/qIZQoNGFq0
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1680654705330905089
I’ve never liked cats.
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Sophia Kianni: Wind turbines are not killing mines for birds!
Cats kill 1.85 billion birds every year in the United States, buildings kill 675 million birds, vehicles kill 214 million birds, and we poison 72 million birds!
For comparison, wind turbine are responsible for 328,000 bird deaths.… https://n.respublicae.eu/i/web/status/1680454347031982083 https://t.co/YTR7mMMhoq
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RT Geoffrey Lean
Good for @tobyhelm and @fionaharvey for covering this. The Office for Budgetary Responsibility @obr_uk report explodes the fallacy that net zero is more expensive than sticking with fossil fuels, but I’ve not seen it mentioned elsewhere. https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/16/top-uk-energy-firms-to-warn-rishi-sunak-dont-back-off-green-agenda
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/GeoffreyLean/status/1680664663296442368
Re @northumbriana It featured in Pravda once, with a picture of a queue outside (for food) used to prove capitalism wasn’t working in the UK!
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1680539146949894145
RT Neil Cuthbert: Puts the UK tree planting goal of 30,000 hectares into perspective @andyheald
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/cuthbertneil/status/1680306815815303171
Ukraine built more onshore wind than the UK last year 🤦♂️
according to @BBCNewsnight
The UK from leader to laggard on climate change response. @GreenAllianceUK
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1679972266564542467
There is a growing body of evidence that if planted astutely in an agroforestry setting then 10% tree cover on a farm will not result in reduced food production. It will boost biodiversity & production of woody biomass see @Farm3Dwithtrees & https://www.jigsawfarms.com.au/ @Agroforestry https://t.co/JBxq04fM1r
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Chris Jones: Weirdly that 10% if spread across the piece would achieve the tree numbers target and making grazing easier to manage and better ecological function all round. It's as if Bangor had not spent 40 years researching, trialling and demonstrating #agroforestry in Wales.
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Re @SustainableTall Any figures for how much carbon straw stores compared to say wood fibre or hemp? That the straw is in a wooden frame must mean the collective stored carbon for this kind of build is fairly high.
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1679566532290965506
Green light for pioneering Brent Cross Town timber office building in London https://www.constructionenquirer.com/2023/07/05/north-london-9-floor-mass-timber-frame-office-approved/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1679567087046410244
Are they National Trust members? If not I’m happy to chip in for life membership for them. @GreenerN_land @lwhemmings @kernowbeaver @Mike_Pratt_NWT https://n.respublicae.eu/mikegwilsonuk/status/1679180701428781056
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Michael Wilson ☀️: Beavers re-introduced to National Trust’s Wallington estate, Northumberland, for first time in 400 years. #Beavers 🦫 https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/beavers-re-introduced-northumberland-first-27309810
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As a fine an example of repurposing as you'll ever see.
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The Lion and the Shamrock: Spotted in Achill, Mayo - an old microwave being used as a postbox... https://t.co/vnvHT5WosX
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1678897266860466176
RT Forestry Journal
That's according to new research 🌳🐄
https://www.forestryjournal.co.uk/news/23647995.agroforestry-proven-boost-yields-protect-farms/
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/Forestry_UK/status/1678749923636805632
RT Farmers Weekly: Quite a stat. 👇🏽 https://t.co/fuEcbG623G
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/FarmersWeekly/status/1678835891710640129
RT Mass Timber at MSU
#masstimber makes new strides in Canada with 3.5 million dollars in government funding for a commercial office building in Vancouver, B.C. This hybrid structure exemplifies the critical role governments can play in advancing mass timber adoption. https://buff.ly/3XJK9Iy
🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/MassTimberAtMSU/status/1678471649459314695
From a climate perspective this is lunacy on stilts. These pallets could all be reused as pallets or recycled to make wood products such what most of us call chipboard. They could also be chipped and used for a variety of garden uses.
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Mark Emmerson: The average pallet contains ~27kg of carbon - Craigyhill uses about 15k pallets or 405 metric tonnes of Carbon. An A320 flying Belfast to London carries 183 people at ~0.14 tCarbon per passenger. Meaning the bonfire emits more carbon than 25 full flights fm London to Belfast!
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🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/PaulBrannenNE/status/1678503098724098053
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
