For Forest

03/07/2021

✅ Gemeinsam mit dem AUSTRIAN WORLD SUMMIT (AWS) gegen den Klimawandel 🌎. Wir 🌲 engagieren uns als Leading Partner bei der jährlichen Klimakonferenz, die gestern in Wien stattfand. Das Forum wurde von Arnold Schwarzenegger ins Leben gerufen und hat ein großes Ziel: auf allen Ebenen für mehr zu sorgen 🌱. Auch wir machen uns mit unserem Netzwerk für konkreten Lösungen stark – gemeinsam für eine klimaintelligente Zukunft 💪! Details auf http://ow.ly/S3id50Foata

21/06/2021

Also this year For Forest is partner of the Austrian World Summit 🌍 . You can check out the program on
www.austrianworldsummit.com.
Due to covid19 regulations no tickets are available this year, but it is possible join the amazing event live & for free online!

HEALTHY PLANET - HEALTHY PEOPLE is the motto of the fifth AUSTRIAN WORLD SUMMIT, which will take place on July 1st at the Spanish Riding School in Vienna. Guests from all over the world will discuss current climate issues with host Arnold Schwarzenegger: " I am excited to team up with President Van....

14/06/2021

The For Forest Innovation Park is getting going: An architectural competition has just started and reputable international architects are participating. A high-ranking jury will decide on the winning concept in September. The 300 trees that once stood as an art installation in a football stadium in Klagenfurt will then find a new home in Tullnerfeld at the new For Forest Innovation Park.

21/03/2021

Today is the 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘁𝘀! 🌳🌏🌲

Established by the United Nations in 2012, the international day of forests aims to raise awareness for forests around the globe.

Today, we would like to share with you a special film by 𝗥𝗼𝗯𝗲𝗿𝘁 𝗦𝗵𝗮𝗯𝘂𝘀. This talented film-maker takes us back to autumn 2019, when 299 trees occupied Klagenfurt's football stadium. He took time to ask visitors about their impressions of the forest, and what it meant to them on a personal level.

On this international day of forests, take 30min to rediscover Klaus Littmann's temporary art intervention with insightful words and stunning images!

In this short documentary about "For Forest - The Unending Attraction of Nature", film-maker Robert Schabus invites us to take a look in Klagenfurt's Wörthersee Stadium in autumn 2019, when 299 trees took over the football pitch to create Austria's largest art intervention to date. Robert Schabus a...

24/02/2021

Ski legend Franz Klammer was our guest of honour at the Austrian World Summit 2020! (The Schwarzenegger Climate Initiative).

We are very grateful to count him as a partner of For Forest!

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23/02/2021

“𝗜𝗳 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘄𝗮𝗻𝘁 𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲, 𝘁𝗵𝗲𝗻 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝘀𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗴𝗿𝗼𝘄 𝗮 𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗹𝗲.”
What if, in a distant future, your next piece of furniture came straight out of a lab? 🪑🌱
Researchers are working on it... Find out more here!
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MIT researchers have proposed a method for growing plant-based materials, like wood and fiber, in a lab. The technology is still in early development but might one day help reduce the environmental footprint of some types of agriculture.

18/02/2021

In Vienna, an over 80-year-old sycamore was moved overnight... 🌙. Construction work for an underground meant it was going to be cut down, but activists came together and had it moved in time.

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Unfortunately, 70 other fellow trees weren't as lucky. The trees are supposed to be replaced.

Die Platane wurde wegen des U-Bahn-Ausbaus in den Bettina-Huber-Park umgesiedelt. Ob das klappt, war lange unklar.

11/02/2021

Glass is known to be a bad insulator. 𝗪𝗼𝗼𝗱 𝗶𝘀𝗻'𝘁. Researchers at the University of Maryland have caught up on that and have been developing windows made completely out of wood... 🏡.

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Treating wood with bleach can make it transparent.

09/02/2021

Although tiny forests can be as small as a tennis courts 🎾, their presence in urban areas is a significant contribution to more biodiversity! 🐝🐛🐜🐞🦋

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Six hundred trees to be planted as part of nationwide initiative to bring more precious woodland into cities

03/02/2021

FOR FOREST has a great new logo! ✨
🌳 Designed by Agentur Werbereich, this logo is an interpretation of the “Voice for Trees”.
🔶 The lush mixed forest which dominates the picture is strengthened by the symmetry of its structure.
💚 The interplay of horizontal and vertical lines reminds us of the waveform produced by a sound... By the forest’s sound reverberating in the trees, bouncing off their branches to reach you.

We are only here to amplify it. 🔊

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28/01/2021

Can the future of satellites be made of... wood? 🛰️ A Japanese company thinks so. The idea? The satellite could burn up without releasing any harmful substance in the atmosphere.

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A Japanese forestry firm has partnered with Kyoto University in what would be a world first.