Fsc.be. Sustainable Forestry Initiative. For Sustainable Wood, a New and Unloved Standard. Stuart Isett for The New York TimesA worker building furniture from reclaimed wood at a factory in Seattle.
Next week select members of the United States Green Building Council will begin casting ballots on whether to overhaul how the organization awards sustainability credits for wood products. If adopted, the standards would fundamentally alter the organization’s approach to rating forestry products. At present, only wood certified by the Forest Stewardship Council qualifies for so-called LEED credits, which are used to certify a building as environmentally sustainable and assign it a rating.
The new standards would open up LEED certification, an increasingly popular benchmark for responsible construction, to any timber certification system that meets a series of sustainability benchmarks. The proposed standards have undergone multiple rounds of revision and public comment. PEFC - Un label pour la gestion durable de la forêt / Een label voor duurzaam bosbeheer - Introduction Introductie.