[Greenbuilding] ***Forest Stewardship Council: A listoftheirlatest lying certifications!***

[Alan Abrams]

I believe that if the creation of sustainable housing is to become a
reality, to become mainstream, to happen at a scale that will support the
needs of the world, then we **need** sustainable materials via the "gaping
maw" of the "sleek, centralized industrial products chain."  If so, then,
imho, processes like FS certification need to be fixed, to become legit.
Perhaps FSC needs a good bashing, but does that mean trashing it as well?  

Even to do the small scale projects my company builds, even with a
"not-so-big" approach, even with advanced framing techniques and engineered
products, we still need a reliable source of high quality lumber, delivered
to the site, on schedule, at some rational cost.  

I beat my brains out looking for sustainable materials that perform as well
as conventional ones, at something resembling a commensurate cost, that are
available next week, not 12 weeks from now, maybe, if the company is still
in business (read my comments on this listserve from 2-3 mos ago on Crystal
cabinets made with the elusive Woodstalk).  

What it boils down to is that the industry as a whole is not yet ready to
support our needs, not for sustainable lumber, not for recycling of
construction waste, not for healthy materials, nor a host of other critical
resources.  I lobby for this every day, to suppliers, local govt officials,
etc, but we're not there yet.  

We **do** need help here.

Alan Abrams          



>
> > What's with you?! You should do your own local research, and share it
with
> > your community. Being part of the big, sleek, centralized, industrial
> > products chain--i.e., corporate economic globalization that gobbles up
> > global resources--the global commons-- into its gaping maw and spits out
a
> > seemingly endless line of products that you purchase--IS the problem.
> >