Certification
The Cheakamus Community Forest is seeking the highest certification that exists for forests, Jesse Ferrarus reports in Pique Newsmagazine.
Brian Moore Log Homes is the first log home builder in British Columbia to receive an FSC chain-of-custody certificateForestry Project Manager Orrin Quinn was busy in 2009, adding 12 new BC businesses to Ecotrust Canada’s FSC Chain-of-Custody Certification Group.
The rivalry between the Forest Stewardship Council and Sustainable Forestry Initiative is coming to a head in a U.S. court and before the U.S. Green Building Council.
Ecotrust Canada would like to welcome Parksville-based Oceanside Wood Products to our FSC Chain-of-Custody
Vancouver, B.C. - Brian Moore Log Homes is pleased to report that in August 2009 it received its "Chain of Custody" certification from the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) through Ecotrust Canada.
The highlights of this certification are as follows;
The world's two dominant eco-forestry certification bodies, the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), are duking it out over which is the best standard for responsible forestry.
Canadian home improvement giant Rona Inc. has adopted a tough new lumber-buying policy that Greenpeace says is going to change the way suppliers log Canada's forests.
Ecotrust Canada is turning its attention to ways local communities can extract more value from the area's timber.
The article Woods War II by Konrad Yakabuski appeared in the October 2008 issue of the Globe and Mail Report on Business Magazine.Konrad Yakabuski’s examination of the ongoing debate about the future of Clayoquot Sound’s forests is timely and important. His story in Report on Business (ROB) magazine does an excellent job of capturing the remarkable complexity of issues that continue to defy easy answers.
Search "native" and "unemployment" in The Globe and Mail'sarchives from 1977 to the present, and you'll get hundreds of hits. The stories chronicle years of spiralling poverty on reserves, Third World housing and escalating suicide rates.
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