by Victoria Jofery | Dec 13, 2017 | General
A colleague and regular reader (AH) sent us an interesting link this week. We think it is worth sharing and reflecting on. It seems to offer another, creative and promising look at simplifying the confusing world of wood product certification. STIP – which...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 9, 2017 | General
We were pleased in October, when the FSC 2017 General Assembly reached a sensible decision to avoid further trouble and “Do No Harm” on the contentious and complex topic of Controlled Wood. This decision, however, did nothing to solve the real problems that this...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 7, 2017 | General
This brief post is to share some good news, and to offer well-deserved congratulations to some of our hard working colleagues who do the real work that makes forest sustainability programs possible. Last month, at the Annual Conference of the Sustainable Forestry...
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 | Oct 9, 2017 | General
Among the “hot topics” under discussion this week at the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 2017 General Assembly is Controlled Wood. This subject has been controversial from the moment the idea was introduced over 10 years ago. Readers of the MixedWood blog know that...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 9, 2017 | General
As we mentioned in our last post (just this morning), MixedWood is attending and participating in the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) 2017 General Assembly, underway this week in the beautiful city of Vancouver, British Columbia. Today was the opening session of the...
by Victoria Jofery | Oct 8, 2017 | General
Regular readers of this blog may have wondered where we have been for the last several months. The answer, of course, is complicated. But one good excuse has been a very busy season for FSC Controlled Wood consulting. If you are among the folks still struggling...
by Victoria Jofery | Apr 2, 2017 | General
Today’s subject – once again – is the FSC Controlled Wood system. A major transition is underway in the community of FSC-certified companies. The long-awaited transition from FSC-STD-40-005 version 2-1 (in place and largely unchanged since 2007) to version 3-1 is...
by Victoria Jofery | Mar 19, 2017 | General
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) published a long-awaited update to the important Chain of Custody standard earlier this winter. If you are a regular reader of this blog, and you have not yet looked at version 3-0 of the FSC Chain of Custody standard, we recommend...
by Victoria Jofery | Dec 14, 2016 | General
The long, long process of updating the Forest Stewardship Council’s (FSC’s) important Chain of Custody (CoC) standard may finally be nearing an end. We learned, along with others at the regional meeting last week in New York City, that the Board of Directors has...
