The Narendra Modi government plans to spend a staggering $6.2 billion to increase India’s green cover. Source: Quartz India The bill ­– called the Compensatory Afforestation Fund Bill, 2015 – has already been passed by lawmakers in India’s lower house this week. The aim of this projec

Over the past few years, wood has emerged as an unlikely yet desirable material for the design of future skyscrapers. This is what London’s first tall timber structure could look like, wrote Jamie Condliffe, contributing Editor at Gizmodo [Engineering & Technology]. Source: Timber

Education is key to ensuring timber resources last the distance, a sustainable timber mill operator says. Source: ABC News Annabel Kater operates an Australian Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)-certified sustainable milling operation at Monkerai, north of Newcastle, with her husband Ja

Sustainable, hi-tech and worth tens of millions of extra dollars each year to the Tasmanian economy – that’s the vision for forestry from the man leading UTAS’s new Centre for Forest Value, Jim Reid. Source: The Mercury Professor Reid’s industry and conservationist backed centre is ta

Processing everyday superannuation transactions will become easier for employers, thanks to SuperStream. Source: Timberbiz SuperStream is an ATO’s initiative aimed at providing a safe, secure and more reliable way of processing everyday transactions, such as employee data and payments

A report on the environmental impacts of forestry prepared for New Zealand’s Gisborne District Council recommends identifying some forest areas that should not be replanted after harvest. Source: Gisborne Herald But chief science specialist Trevor Freeman told the council’s environmen

Housing industry expert David Chandler OAM will make the Keynote Address “Shaking the Tree – Challenging our Conventional Thinking” at the Doing Timber Business in Queensland conference on 9 June 2016. Source: Timberbiz David has led major construction projects such

The commercialisation of the Low Odour Timberlink Green LOSP outdoor product will be presented as a case study example of successful innovation in the timber products market in Australia, at the upcoming Wood Innovations conference to be held in late May/June in Melbourne and Rotorua.

A conference in Rotorua under the banner “Changing Perceptions of Engineered Timber for Construction” aims to encourage collaboration among designers, engineers, quantity surveyors, architects and developers. Source: Timberbiz This special one-day conference on 26 May from 8am-7pm at