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The Portland, Oregon, firm is recasting the humble material as an urbane powerhouse, one project at a time. Lever Architects Above : Thomas Robinson in Lever’s Portland Architects office. There’s been a lot of talk in recent years about building with wood, much of it infused with a certain back-to-the-land, eco-idealism. Not without reason: Wood…

  The Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) is an international non-profit, non-governmental organization dedicated to promoting Sustainable Forest Management through independent third-party certification. PEFC works throughout the entire forest supply chain to promote good practice in the forest and to ensure that timber and non-timber forest products are produced with respect for the highest ecological, social and ethical…

Chain of Custody Certification CoC provides assurances that the final wood product can be traced back to a sustainable source and that production processes used to transform the finished product have been implemented with due respect for environmental, economic and social standards. If an organisation is advertising certified products, e.g. FSC / PEFC it does…

A number of Forest Certification Schemes exist  e.g FSC, MTCC, PEFC, Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) Programme for the Endorsement of Forest Certification (PEFC) Canadian Standards Association (CSA) & Sustainable Forest Management System (SFM) Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) Malaysian Timber Certification Council – MTCC & Malaysian Timber Certification Scheme (MTCS) Different Forest Certification Schemes mentioned exist as…

It is always important to remind ourselves the benefits of forests as we tend to take the importance and benefits of forests for granted. There is a need to understand that the impact of deforestation is very great and will be very difficult to correct as forests are under threat. Forests play a vital part in…

We have become very much aware and concerned about the environment. The world’s natural forests cannot sustainably meet the soaring global demand for timber products under current forest management practices. According to the Centre for International Forestry Research (CIFOR), approximately 24.7 million acres of fast-wood plantations or commercially planted forests exist worldwide. Each year around…

|Finance,Forestry,News,Renewables and Environment The Forestry Commission is hosting events in the Scottish Borders aimed at encouraging farmers and land owners to integrate tree planting into their business. It will provide information on the attractive forestry grants now available to help support tree planting and woodland management. Forestry and woodland creation has been highlighted recently in two new…

  by UNEP-WCMC, 11 January 2018   The UNEP-World Conservation Monitoring Centre has published the latest edition of its periodic briefing note on developments relevant to the implementation and enforcement of the EU Timber Regulation (EUTR). Logs with tracking marks, Kumasi, Ghana by EU FLEGT Facility The briefing note covers August 2017 to October 2017. It summarises…

Deforestation from unchecked logging in Laos is shown in a file photo. AFP Customs officers in central Laos’s Bolikhamxay province stopped a truck carrying contraband rosewood at the border with Vietnam at the end of December, as smugglers continue to frustrate government attempts to halt the illegal trade in timber, sources said. Authorities confiscated the…

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