Finding Certified Wood Online:
www.certifiedwood.org

The Certified Forest Products Council (CFPC) is a nonprofit organization working to increase awareness of, and develop markets for, products from environmentally sound forest operations. Although not officially affiliated with the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), CFPC is a strong advocate of FSC-accredited certification as the only system that lives up to the Council’s own standards. (An aside: the Certified Forest Products International Conference & Showcase, originally scheduled for September 26–28, 2001, has been rescheduled for April 25–27, 2002 at the Cobb Galleria in Atlanta). Now there is an online resource that explains this endorsement in detail, while also providing great new tools for finding and specifying certified wood and other forest products.

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