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FSC Certified
Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the responsible supervision of the world’s forests. FSC sets strict standards that guarantee forestry is performed in an environmentally, socially favorable, and economically practicable way.
Landowners and companies that sell lumber or forest products seek out certification as a way to authenticate themselves to their consumers. This certification validates the fact that these companies have practiced forestry consistent with FSC measures. Independent, certification organizations are trained by FSC to carry out evaluations of forest management to verify if standards have been met. These certifiers also make sure that companies selling the FSC certified products have documented their supply back to FSC certified sources. This chain of guardianship certification verifies that consumers can trust the FSC label.
Our Company uses FSC certified paper and printers to produce its catalogs and line books. We believe that that we have a responsibility to respect and protect our forests. We try to minimize our ecological footprint and emissions, and are committed to being as green as possible by continuously seeking out and adopting environmentally responsible business and daily operational practices. Find out more information about the FSC by logging onto http://www.fsc.org/en/.
The word organic is popping up everywhere these days, but what exactly does it mean? To...
Organic
The word ‘organic’ is popping up everywhere these days, but what exactly does it mean? To get to the root of it, we have to go back to the way the raw materials are produced. Today, many products are made with chemical fertilizers, genetic modification, or added preservatives.
Organic farmers use a different approach - they focus on growing and farming their goods in a natural, environment-friendly surrounding. They do not add chemicals, hormones or preservatives to their products. The word organic is most commonly used when referring to food, health care products, clothing and linens.
How does it apply to these different items?
Food & health items:
Clothing & Linens:
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Greenhouse effect is the heating of the earth's atmosphere caused by an increase of carbon...
Greenhouse effect
Greenhouse effect is the heating of the earth's atmosphere caused by an increase of carbon dioxide or other trace gases; it is understood that this increase permits light from the sun's rays to heat the earth but prevents a counterbalancing loss of heat. Current life on Earth could not be sustained without the natural greenhouse effect. The “natural” greenhouse effect keeps the earth’s climate warm and habitable.
The Earth's standard surface temperature is about 68-86°F warmer than it would be without the greenhouse effect. In addition to Earth, other planets such as Mars and Venus also have greenhouse effects.
(Source: Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_house_effect)
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Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air ...
Global Warming
Global warming is the increase in the average temperature of the Earth's near-surface air and oceans in recent decades and its projected continuation and is implied that this is caused by human influence.
Global average air temperature rose 0.32° F during the past century. Observed causes of this change in temperature include increased greenhouse gas concentrations from human activity.
(Source: Wikipedia, (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_warming)) our favorite Global Warming links:
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