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Article: Certifiably green: evaluating wood products and sustainable forest management systems.
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- Environmental Design & Construction
- Article date:
- April 1, 2005
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In your latest green building project, did the wood floor you specify come from a well-managed forest? How can you be sure and why does it matter?
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We recognize that forests are an essential, but limited, natural resource--they provide us with valuable building products (like flooring, cabinetry, and lumber for framing), but they also help to sustain life. Unfortunately, forest conservation statistics are glum. According to the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), "Half the world's forests are now gone, and well over 30 million acres more are lost each year. In the U.S., more than half our national forests have been logged, ...