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Airing under the new Planet Ark Environmental Edge brand, a new television commercial highlights the fact that wood stores carbon and that this is an environmental positive.

Sustainable architect, Michael Green demonstrates how you can use off-the-shelf timber products and standard connections to build taller and bigger buildings with wood. The key is to dream big and innovate.

Sustainable architect Michael Green believes that architects have a fundamental obligation to tackle the big issues of climate change and world poverty. The only construction material that delivers a solution to these global challenges is affordable timber sourced from sustainably managed forests.

Environmentalist and architect Michael Green presents the broader motivations for using timber in construction: its natural qualities; its ease of construction; and its positive impact on the bottom line.