by Victoria Jofery | Mar 10, 2020 | General
We are watching an important new initiative by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) that promises to disrupt and complicate the Chain of Custody (CoC). The proposal is to revise the CoC certification program, inserting a novel set of new requirements – the “FSC Core...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 12, 2017 | General
MixedWood continues to follow and participate in a number of engaged discussions on several topics at the FSC 2017 General Assembly (GA) in Vancouver this week. We continue to be impressed with the quality of cross-chamber, collaborative policy and decision making. ...
by Victoria Jofery | Jun 22, 2015 | General
If MixedWood is defined by one idea, it would be this: Sustainable Forest Management (SFM) will always be hard. So SFM certification programs – the tools we use to bringing SFM products to market – should not make it harder. Chain of Custody (CoC)...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 24, 2014 | General
Earlier this year, we wrote extensively about the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI) program’s public consultation process for the update of their standards. We gave SFI high marks for conducting a very thorough and transparent process to release a complete...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 17, 2014 | General
The MixedWood Blog has been quiet for several weeks. This is not because things have been quiet and there has been nothing to write about. On the contrary, there’s been lot going on: The FSC General Assembly; The SFI Annual Conference; interesting and ongoing...
