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Article: EARTH TALK: ; Guitar industry looks to sustainable woods for products
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- August 10, 2009
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E/The Environmental Magazine
Dear EarthTalk: I'm a musician and am curious about what the
guitar industry is doing to ensure that the wood it uses is not
destroying forests. - Chris Wiedemann, Ronkonkoma, N.Y.
Though it has not received a lot of press to date, the industry
is on the case - in part for the sake of its own survival, and
thanks to the hard work of a handful of green groups, guitar makers
and wood suppliers.
In 1996, Gibson, one of the world's premier guitar brands, became
the first in the industry to make some of its instruments using wood
certified as "sustainably harvested" by the nonprofit Forest
Stewardship Council (FSC).
By 2006, 42 percent of the wood purchased by the ...