The Wood Users Guide

The Rainforest Action Network’s Wood Users Guide, by Pamela Wellner and Eugene Dickey (revised, April 1992) is the most complete guide we’ve seen on alternatives to tropical hardwoods. The 68-page booklet begins by succinctly presenting RAN’s position on tropical timber use: very simply, that tropical hardwoods should be boycotted unless those woods “can be proven to come from logging operations that are truly sustainable and that do not exploit the people of the forests.” This position has been criticized as too extreme by many, including some environmentalists, who argue that eliminating a market for tropical woods could hasten the conversion of forest land to agricultural uses for which it is ill-suited.
...

To read the complete article, please login below.

BuildingGreen.com