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Food Production Shouldn't Be A Mystery: Reading Behind Food Eco-Labels
What's in my food? How is it made? These are questions consumers are increasingly concerned about when it comes to purchasing food, according to the Natural Products Industry Forecast 2014, released by New Hope Natural Media and the marketing…
Food production shouldn't be a mystery: Reading behind food eco-labels
By McKenzie Hall, R.D., Environmental Nutrition Newsletter | Premium Health News Service
What's in my food? How is it made? These are questions consumers are increasingly concerned about when it comes to purchasing food,…
How to Fight Greenwashing: The Value of Third-Party Certification in Green Building
By Elise Hunter
I recently came across a line of roofing tiles advertised as “lower carbon footprint.” This nebulous claim begged a string of questions. Lower than what? How much lower? What scopes of emissions are included in the carbon…
La certificación FSC, a debate en Galiforest
El tercer Monográfico Forestal Internacional para el Sur de Europa, Galiforest 2014, reserva la primera de las tres jornadas (del 26 al 28 de este mes) para un ciclo de charlas que organiza FSC España, una organización no gubernamental de…
Gunlocke's New Casegoods Line Boasts Green Credentials
Gunlocke’s new Credentials line is aptly named. Sustainably manufactured, the casegoods line is backed by “credentials” from both SCS Indoor Advantage Gold for indoor air quality and the BIFMA level 2 certification. Credentials furniture also can…
The first of the Big Ten goes blue!
The University of Michigan (U-M) today became the first Big Ten university to achieve Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Chain of Custody certification as part of its overall commitment to offer sustainable food on campus. U-M’s Michigan Dining has…
Collaborative to Establish Health Product Declarations Protocol
The Health Product Declaration Collaborative (HPDC) partnered with seven product sustainability assessment companies to develop a third-party verification protocol for Health Product Declarations (HPDs).
Along with GreenCE, GreenCircle,…
The Fundamentals of Fish to Fork
Robert’s Maine Grill, in Kittery, Maine, used to toss all its oyster shells into the trash can behind the restaurant to be carted off to the local landfill. Not anymore.
“We were approached by the Coastal Conservation Association (CCA) of…
SierraPine Completes Panel Health Product Declaration
SierraPine is pleased to announce completion of Health Product Declaration™ (The HPD™) for its particleboard and MDF specialty products. SierraPine worked closely with SCS Global Services, a trusted leader in third-party certification, to…
FSC’s Project Certified booth at Greenbuild 2012
Already one of the most important events of the year for the Forest Stewardship Council, this year’s Greenbuild was also significant because LEED v4 was open for public comments and the event was held in the Bay Area, one of the biggest markets…