by Victoria Jofery | Mar 3, 2014 | General
This post is the third and final in my short series, sharing and describing my feedback to the SFI program staff on the proposed updates to SFI standards for Forest Management, Wood Procurement, Chain of Custody, and Certified Sourcing. SFI is conducting an...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 26, 2014 | General
In my last post, I offered the first in what will be a short series of articles on the Sustainable Forestry Initiative Program (SFI) 5- year standard review process. The SFI program deserves a lot of credit for conducting such an open-handed, transparent process for...
by Victoria Jofery | Feb 25, 2014 | General
When I last wrote in this space about the SFI 5-year standard review process I promised to provide my own commentary on the posted draft standards here. My intentions were good, but business has been brisk over the last month and the needs and interests of my clients...
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...
