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[jb]

FYI...big article this morning on AOL world news about the ecofriendly lumber movement......www.aolnews.com  

[glenn kangiser]

jb, could you possibly post a link or copy the URL and post it here.  A search of AOL  turned up no results for this article.  It may be in a members only area or off their site.  

You can simply copy and paste a URL to the message typing area and it will become a link without using the link icon in the message area.

Thanks
Glenn

[Amanda_931]

This might be new enough to have been copied on AOL news this morning:

http://csmonitor.com/2005/0422/p01s04-woam.html

[glb]At a store near you: ecofriendly lumber[/glb]

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But José Ramon Carrera, who has spent the past 20 years protecting the forest here, says there is a way to get people like Mr. Choc to stop destroying the forest. The answer: certified "fair trade" lumber. It's modeled after fair-trade coffee, where growers are paid above market price for following sustainable farming practices. And it's catching on: everyone from small US furnituremakers to the Home Depot - even Gibson Guitar Corp., which is set to move to 100 percent certified wood this month - are increasingly bringing ecofriendly lumber to stores near you.

"I thought, at first, that forests should not be touched," says Mr. Carrera, regional coordinator for the forestry division of the Rainforest Alliance, a nonprofit based in New York, who grew up here. "We used to confiscate wood, put people in jail, haul them away - but the forest would still just keep getting smaller and smaller." Now, he realizes, "The only way to conserve here, it turns out, is to make it profitable."

[jb]

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0422/p01s04-woam.html?ref=aol