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In response to the Covid-19 pandemic, AHEC partnered up with Benchmark Furniture and the Design Museum in London for a new project that explores how creatives and makers adapt their processes using new technologies to work together at a distance and often operating from new, improvised home offices. Nine international designers have been challenged to create a table and seating, which will suit their new ways of working from and living at home, and they will be recording their creative journeys to give us an insight to their approach during these challenging times.

"Climate change and the environment are now constant topics of media attention. They are examining the issues more closely and are not just focused on the problem, but interested in solutions. For the timber industry, this upsurge in media and consumer interest and awareness is a huge opportunity. We not only have a great story to tell, presenting wood as part of the solution to climate change and environmental degradation, today we can underpin that story with more evidence and better tools and data."

A new updated version of AHEC's interactive forest map is now available on AHEC's website. The map uses U.S. Forest Service data to show national and regional distribution, growth and removal information for most of the main commercial American hardwood species.   

"The industry must continue to communicate timber’s role in mitigating climate change, another crisis that could turn the world upside down," writes American Hardwood Export Council European Director David Venables.