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Successfully Sourcing Local FSC Products
Presenters:
Ian Hanna, Northwest Natural Resource Group, Port Townsend, WA
Rob Duncan, Sierra Club of BC
Stephen Aiguier, Green Hammer Construction, Portland, OR
Michael Vitt, Iisaak Forest Resources, Ucuelet, BC
Tony Marcil, FSC Canada
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This
session will highlight strategies, resources, and case studies for
successfully specifying and sourcing the full array of FSC certified
wood products. The FSC system is experiencing dramatic growth, but has
yet to reach maturity. Particularly for Living Building Challenge
projects, where all wood is required to be FSC certified or reclaimed,
meeting your projects needs can be extremely challenging without the
proper tools, guidance, and business relationships. By examining each
level of the wood products supply chain we will provide you with the
answers you need. Roughly half of the time allotted to this session
will be dedicated to Q&A.Presenter Bios
Michael Vitt
Mike Vitt is the Forestry Program Manager for Ecotrust Canada. He holds an MBA from Washington University in St. Louis and a B.Sc. (Forestry) from the University of Alberta, and previously held forest planning and harvesting management positions with Weyerhaeuser inAlberta, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. Mike lives in Vancouver with his wife and daughter. The Forestry Program at Ecotrust Canada is
engaged in: proving new business models for triple bottom line forests
and forest-based companies; working to understand and implement
ecosystem-based forest management; building the supply and demand for
FSC certified wood products on the coast of B.C.; and most recently on creating value from ecosystem services in forests. Ecotrust Canada currently
manages Iisaak Forest Resources Ltd. (the largest FSC supply on the
B.C. coast), a FSC group certification program for woodlots, and a FSC
chain-of-custody group certification program for wood processors and
distributors.
Click here to listen to Michael Vitt's presentation podcast.
Having joined FSC Canada in 2005, Antony G. Marcil brings a combination of private sector marketing and non-profit fundraising experience to the FSC mission, which is the promotion of environmentally appropriate, socially beneficial and economically viable management of Canada’s forests. He is known internationally for his leadership in industrial and urban environment, health and safety policy and practices. During his ten years as President & C.E.O. of the World Environment Center, he worked closely with the senior environmental and corporate social responsibility executives of dozens of multinational companies, such as Alcoa, BP, Dow, DuPont, Ford, GM, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Nortel, Pfizer and Westvaco. Prior to that, he worked in manufacturing, capital project development and tele- communications consulting engineering in the U.S., Canada, Europe and the Middle East.
Click here to listen to Antony Marcil's presentation podcast.
Ian is a market development expert, with a broad background in
ecosystem forestry, forestry-based carbon offsets, small-scale
manufacturing, FSC certification, and wood product sales. His
experience includes national level market development for FSC and
reclaimed wood products as a manager for Certified Wood & Paper
Association and Certified Forest Products Council. Ian also founded Windfall Lumber in Olympia, one of the first FSC certified businesses in the Northwest. Ian is a board member of the FSC US Initiative
and his professional affiliations include the Washington Farm Forestry
Association, Oregon Small Woodlands Association, U.S. and Cascadia
Region Green Building Councils, and Northwest Ecobuilding Guild.
Click here to listen to Ian Hanna's presentation podcast.
Stephen Aiguier
Stephen
is the founder and President of Green Hammer Inc., a Portland-based residential
building contractor committed to advancing the highest standards for green
building. Established in 2002, Green Hammer is dedicated to building
durable high quality homes and remodels that incorporate the use of natural,
local and non-toxic materials with the most advanced energy and water
conservation systems and techniques available. Stephen and the team at
Green Hammer work diligently to leverage their experiences and accomplishments
to grow the green building market in the Pacific Northwest,
making responsible materials, techniques and management systems more prominent,
efficient and accessible. In 2005 he co-founded the Build Local Alliance as a
forum for connecting local forest stewards practicing Forest Stewardship
Council certified forestry to builders and architects in the Portland region. In 2007 Stephen was
recognized as a local leader in the green building movement and was elected to
serve as Board Chair for the Columbia West Chapter of the Northwest Ecobuilding
Guild.
Click here to listen to Stephen Aiguier's presentation podcast.
As
a forestry specialist with Sierra Club BC, Rob’s work focuses on different aspects
of species and ecosystem protection. This includes everything from protecting
individual species like the mountain caribou to big-picture issues like
advocating for a B.C. endangered species act. Rob is also working with the
Vancouver Olympic Committee to identify potential opportunities to use
eco-certified wood in buildings for the Olympics.
Rob started his forestry career as a tree-planter and activist and was motivated to study forestry at UBC due to his involvement in the protests at Clayoquot Sound in 1993. He spent two years in Chile working directly with subsistence level farmers and indigenous groups to produce value-added products from unutilized wood and introduce concepts of sustainable forest management.
Click here to listen to Rob Duncan's presentation podcast.
Audio edited by http://h2opodcast.com.
