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Uniboard, a North American leader of manufactured engineered wood products, is pleased to announce that its plant in Mont-Laurier, Quebec has been issued a Chain of Custody (COC) Certificate Multi-site by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) SW-COC 002726.
“FSC certification is the industry’s environmental gold standard and this achievement underlines Uniboard’s ongoing commitment to sustainable [...]

Intelligent Global Pooling Systems (iGPS Company LLC), announced today that, commencing in December, Dole Fresh Fruit, a subsidiary of Dole Food Company, will begin utilizing iGPS’ all-plastic pallets with embedded RFID tags in the shipping of some of its products within North America. Dole Food Company is the

Brazil, Indonesia, and nations in the Amazon-Andes and Central America are poised to be key players in an emerging market for forest carbon that could reach $20 billion annually through 2020 according to a detailed analysis released today by Resources for the Future.

The Forest Carbon Index, developed by RFF and Climate Advisers, provides governments, development agencies, NGOs, and private investors with geospatial data on global, national, and local forest carbon supply, explicitly taking into account country-specific economic, biological, and risk factors—such as governance and ease of doing business.

The US Office of the Federal Environmental Executive defines green building as the practice of 1) increasing the efficiency with which buildings and their sites use energy, water, and materials, and 2)