Purchasing Wood Products
For Sustainability

As Universities evolve to consider the bigger picture, campus environmental policies are looking towards global environmental stewardship through purchasing practices. Besides looking at Buying Recycled, schools are now looking into bigger issues such as supporting sustainable forestry and elimination of purchasing of old growth wood. Indiana University recently adopted a NO OLD GROWTH purchasing policy, which begins to address this issue. Here are some useful websites that are beginning to address this issue. If you have any information that you think is useful to this discussion, please contact us and will try and include this information on our website. Contact us: recycle@uoregon.edu

American Forestry & Paper Association
Sustainable Forestry Initiative - http://www.afandpa.org/Content/......

Certified Forest Products - http://www.certifiedwood.org

Forest Stewardship Council - http://www.fscus.org

Indiana University's Policy re:
responsible purchasing of wood products - http://www.indiana.edu/~purchase/policies/p101.html

UO Sustainable Development Plan - PDF Document

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