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Sponsored: As more companies shift to fiber-based or paper packaging, strong forest management practices will be essential for the sustainability of a company’s operations.
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Critics say it's too easy for the timber industry to exploit loopholes. Plus, the process isn't reaching a major contributor to tropical deforestation: agricultural organizations.
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Sponsored story: The Forestry Stewardship Council certification process teaches small landowners of forests to sustainably manage their land.
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The president of Rainforest Alliance, a prolific certifier of sustainable goods, explores the real-world impact of sustainability labels.
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By teaming up with The Nature Conservancy, this leading agricultural company has helped to mitigate deforestation in Brazil.
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Forget the empty rhetoric. The new year should be about demonstrable, measurable action.
by Brendan May
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Is the forestry industry trying to scuttle LEED?
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A Rainforest Alliance workshop found common threads emerging among pioneers in sustainable production and sourcing.
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There is a growing body of evidence showing that sustainability certification is spawning far-reaching changes in production and land use practices, supply chains and in the way businesses operate.
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The war over wood product certification labels may be raging among forestry and green building advocates but the White House is trying to steer clear of the controversy in staging its annual Easter Egg Roll.<br />
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The chief executive of the Sustainable Forestry Initiative responds to the latest developments in the controversy over rival certification standards for the sourcing of wood and paper products.
by Kathy Abusow
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With this week's news of seven major companies dropping their support for the Sustainable Forestry Initiative, a war of words has heated up between SFI and the Forest Stewardship Council, the other wood products certification on the market.
by Marc Gunther
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The controversy over wood certifications standards fired up again today with an announcement from the advocacy group ForestEthics that Office Depot, Symantec, wholesale business products distributor United Stationers and four other companies are backing away from the Sustainable Forestry Initiative -- a report that left SFI unfazed.
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The Sustainable Forestry Initiative says it has gathered more than 5,000 signatures for its online petition calling for the U.S. Green Building Council to recognize wood products bearing certification from a variety of groups, including the SFI.
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Scientific Certification Systems has certified 528,332 acres of Indiana woodlands to Forest Stewardship Council standards, SCS said today.
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Former foes Staples Inc. and the nonprofit Dogwood Alliance are joining forces for a pilot project meant to give landowners in the southern U.S. the chance to earn money by conserving their forests and changing their management practices.