Timber and Forestry E News Issue 339

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ISSUE 339 | October 13, 2014

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Wood for Good goes live in UK

Industry urged to broadcast carbon videos

THE UK Wood for Good marketing campaign is urging companies across the timber industry to embed its new videos, highlighting the carbon benefits of using and building with wood, into their own websites. The animations, headlined with the campaign slogans ‘Follow the Tree and Build it with Carbon’, are based on research findings and information collated by life cycle analysis (LCA) consultants PE International for the Wood for Good lifecycle database, which launched earlier this year. The animations are now live

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Carbon visuals .. Wood for Good images illustrate the energy saving and carbon storage of high-insulated timber houses.

on the Wood for Good website, while a discussion on their production between campaign director Dave Hopkins,

chairman Craig White, and Carbon Visuals’ Antony Turner, is on YouTube. Cont P 2

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