The Center for Forest and Wood Certification has earned Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification from Scientific Certification Systems (SCS). The FSC is a non-profit organization devoted to enco... Read More..

After my last article in Green Matters we received a request from one of our readers to address a specific topic that was referred to as FSC overreach. The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) has been re... Read More..

About once every other week I get contacted by one of our Architectural Woodwork Institute members confused over the changes in the certified wood credit. Read More..

This month I will be doing a presentation at the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Annual Conference regarding the affect certified wood has on the architectural woodwork industry. SFI is one of over 4... Read More..

LEED is an ever evolving system that is in a constant state of change. The proposed changes from the first open comment period to the LEED programs are being updated in what is referred to as LEED 20... Read More..

Do you know about LEED Pilot Credits? According to the United States Green Building Council (USGBC) the LEED Pilot Credits are described as follows. “The LEED Pilot Credit Library is intended to faci... Read More..

BIFMA International recently announced formal American National Standards Institute (ANSI) approval and release of the ANSI/BIFMA e3-2010 Furniture Sustainability Standard. The e3 standard represents... Read More..

Doellken-Woodtape, a Surteco Division, was awarded the most stringent GREENGUARD CERTIFICATION FOR CHILDREN AND SCHOOLS from the Greenguard Environmental Institute. The company's PVC, ABS and 3-D pro... Read More..

Randy Lange, president and co-owner of Lange Bros. Woodwork Co., Inc announced recently that The Herrington Recovery Center in Summit, Wis. was selected by a juried panel of judges as the winner of t... Read More..

Columbia Forest Products has launched a new web portal with resources to help forestland owners manage and improve the performance of their forest land holdings. Columbia maintains an FSC forest mana... Read More..