SFI at the USGBC Federal Summit
The USGBC Federal Summit in Washington DC last week was a great opportunity to promote SFI forest certification and certified wood products.
The USGBC Federal Summit in Washington DC last week was a great opportunity to promote SFI forest certification and certified wood products.
Recent coverage in Canadian Wood Products and the LBM Journal points to reasons as to why the US Green Building Council should open the LEED rating system.
Not only have we received broad support to open the LEED rating system from government and forest community leaders, but have also received thousands of comments on the petition.
Yesterday I talked about how giving credit only to FSC-certified wood discriminates against North American wood for LEED projects.
Two major North American groups representing forestry experts have weighed in with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) on the LEED standard.
As I’ve said before, making the U.S. Green Building Council’s LEED Rating System more inclusive would be of value for green building and the North American economy.
The only solicited comments the Building Council seems to be heeding are coming from groups bent on promoting a monopoly.
For the past decade, the USGBC has given the Forest Stewardship Council a monopoly on wood from its forests being used in LEED Projects.
Let me say how grateful I am to the SFI, ATFS, CSA and PEFC supporters who have stood behind us in our efforts urging the USGBC to open its LEED Rating System.
We’ve heard from a lot of people and organizations over the past few weeks about dissatisfaction with the direction the USGBC is taking the forest certification benchmarks.