by Victoria Jofery | Feb 19, 2014 | General
It has become an accepted fact in the green certification business that growth at the root of the supply chain – the forest – has pretty well leveled off. Most of the large institutional and industrial landowners have either become certified (to SFI, FSC,...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 18, 2014 | General
Readers of the MixedWood blog will be familiar with my skeptical view of the FSC’s recent efforts to build and deploy a massive new central transaction database called the Online Claims Platform. Newcomers can pick up the thread here, and follow it back as far...
by Victoria Jofery | Jan 27, 2014 | General
I received an message this morning in my inbox from FSC-IC, announcing the release of a second discussion draft of their International Generic Indicators (IGI’s). You can read all about the IGI process, from FSC’s perspective, here. You read some earlier...
by Victoria Jofery | Jan 10, 2014 | General
In my January 8 blogpost, I called attention to the ambitious and impressive effort that the SFI program staff a making to engage stakeholders in the comprehensive review of their standards this year. I feel strongly that all companies who hold SFI certificates...
by Victoria Jofery | Jan 8, 2014 | General
As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, the Sustainable Forestry Initiative program just released discussion drafts of the 5-year update to its main standard documents. They have also done an impressive job of organizing a format for stakeholder feedback and...
