Pressure on the world’s forests continues to mount, even as their total acreage shrinks.  The building community has a choice to make: 

We can build with certified sustainable forest products that address the triple bottom line of People, Planet and Prosperity.

Or we can build with greenwashed or unabashedly unsustainable wood.

We invite your help!

INVITATION #1:  Invitation to the Building Community
Specify Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) products or better.

INVITATION #2:  Invitation to Big Timber
Commit your US and Canadian operations to sustainable “ecoforestry” under the FSC certification process.

INVITATION #3:  Invitation to the Forest Stewardship Council
Work with us, scientists and other green building leaders to create a “living forestry standard.”

Don’t buy the greenwash.  Specify FSC or better.

Download more information about Cascadia's Forestry Call to Action.

UPDATES

Let Your Voice Be Heard

Cascadia members and supporters are strongly urged to continue to participate in the ongoing process around the MRc7 LEED credit involving sustainable forestry and "Certified Wood".

Learn more and read the note recently sent from Joel Sisolak, Cascadia's Advocacy and Outreach Director.

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Cascadia Leaders Voice Support for FSC Wood or Better

Cascadia’s CEO and leaders from Oregon’s green building community respond to an opinion piece that appeared in the Oregonian calling for the relaxation of the US Green Building Council’s LEED certified wood credit to recognize SFI and other industry-controlled standards.

Cascadia guidance on the certified wood issue

We've provided a guidance document for the use of the USGBC public vote on the LEED Certified Wood Credit (MR7 in LEED-NC)

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