Michael Green wants to solve architecture’s biggest challenge -- meeting worldwide housing demand without increasing carbon emissions -- by building with carbon-sequestering wood instead of concrete and steel.
Building a skyscraper? Forget about steel and concrete, says architect Michael Green, and build it out of wood.

As he details in his intriguing TED talk, it's not only possible to build safe wooden structures up to 30 stories tall (and, he hopes, higher), it's necessary.

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After six months of negotiations, the European parliament and Council today reached agreement on Horizon 2020. At €68bn, it is well below the €80bn originally proposed by the European Commission and the €100bn requested by the European Parliament.

In response to the European Parliament report on innovating for sustainable growth (" A Bioeconomy for Europe"), The Confederation of European Forest Owners (CEPF) and the European Farmers and European Agri-Cooperatives (Copa-Cogeca) issued a joint statement on the role of forest in the EU bioeconomy.

COST Action FP0904 and FP1006 organizing joint conference on Characterization of modified wood in relation to wood bonding and coating performance, which will be held in Slovenia on 16-18 th of October 2013.  

For implementing the revised FTP Strategic Research and Innovation Agenda towards Horizon 2020 FTP received more than 90 Topic Proposals via its National Support Groups. These proposals have been analysed, sorted and grouped into a more manageable number of clusters/themes that will be further elaborated in three workshops that will be organised together with EFI, InnovaWood and EFPRO respectively.