The AFA (Andalusian Forestry Association) Assembly yesterday in Algodonales (Cádiz) breathed a powerful air of hope based on an intense and wise work in 2022 led by its president Gabriel A. Gutiérrez Tejada.
At the initiative of COSE and Marjal, the Directorate General of Forestry Policy and Biodiversity of the Ministry of Sustainability, Environment and Blue Economy of the Regional Government of Andalusia, has approved the creation of a Working Group to support the technical and administrative work for the development and approval of a standard model of Sustainable Forest Management for Poplar Plantations in Andalusia.
Yesterday, Thursday, a group of students studying dual vocational training in the cycle "Interior works, decoration and rehabilitation" in the CIFP Coroso-Ribeira (province of A Coruña) have known the LIFE Wood for Future through various activities carried out in the facilities of the Structural Wood Engineering Platform (PEMADE) integrated in the University of Santiago de Compostela and located in the EPSE in the campus of Lugo
Granada, which has been dazzling the world for almost eight centuries with the wooden coffered ceilings of its royal Nasrid palace, the Alhambra, now stands at the epicenter of a social, economic and environmental movement unprecedented in our recent forestry history, due to the repercussions that the new uses of wood will have on the way we look at the forest.
Today, January 17, an informative talk took place at the IES Politécnico Hermenegildo Lanz in Granada, to publicize the LIFE Project "Wood for the future", of great importance for the sustainable revitalization of the Vega de Granada.
UGR and Consejería de Fomento sign a protocol to promote the sustainable construction of public housing thanks to the use of poplar and pine. The San Isidro sugar mill as a nerve center for scientific management. The provincial territory and the rest of Andalusia as a space for action to apply the sustainable construction of public housing using poplar and pine wood
On December 19, the new Delegate of Agriculture, Fisheries, Water and Rural Development, Celia Santiago Buendía, and her technical team, received a delegation from Agrupación Marjal and LIFE Wood for Future, as well as the Director of IFAPA-Camino del Purchil, María Ángeles Álvarez.
Impronta Granada is a proposal of the Diputación de Granada and the University of Granada to create a productive dialogue relationship between both institutions. The Impronta Granada project starts its activity with a series of innovation and co-creation laboratories, in which the challenges of climate change in Granada have been addressed.
The town of Láchar hosted yesterday evening, November 22, the presentation of the LIFE Wood for Future project and the Agrupación Marjal.
The rector of the University of Granada, Pilar Aranda, presided over the presentation of the Cívitas-UGR Chair 'Sustainability, Innovation and Development'. This initiative is the result of the interaction between business and academia in the areas of sustainability, innovation and training.
The Town Hall of Siles has hosted this Friday a conference entitled 'Wood and its use to reduce the carbon footprint: an opportunity for the Sierra de Segura', presented to forest owners and other social and economic agents a sustainable development project for this region, which includes municipalities in the provinces of Jaén and Granada.
