Timber! should be read by all those in planning, housing policy, construction and agriculture, and many more besides. Paul Brannen does a fabulous job of showing how feasible and beneficial it would be if we not only sequestered carbon through growing trees, but then locked it up in our buildings and insulation for many decades to come. With innovations like agroforestry on the one hand, and glulam on the other, it's easily within our grasp to grow and use more wood, with multiple benefits for society, not least to more rapidly solve our housing shortage through modular timber based buildings. -- Helen Browning, Chief Executive, Soil Association Paul Brannen has bravely and cleverly considered one of the most far-reaching, broad-ranging and deep dimensions of contemporary science... How to grow and then use timber and wood, both successfully and sustainably, is at the very heart of this book... you would be mad not to buy it. -- Forestry Journal Timber! is a passionate and thought-provoking manifesto for the much bigger role wood and forestry could play in tackling the climate crisis and improving the built environment. It packs in a good deal of fact and analysis, as well as some controversial opinions, but always in an engaging way. I may never be as evangelical about timber as Paul Brannen, but I am now much better informed. -- Shaun Spiers, Executive Director, Green Alliance How good is wood? Paul Brannen's engaging and accessible book explains how building materials that are grown instead of mined can change buildings from being a climate problem to part of the solution. -- Lloyd Alter, author of The Story of Upfront Carbon
