Building sustainable forestry & certification auditor capacity Responsible Wood (PEFC Australia) and Vietnam Forest Certification Office (VFCO) recently partnered for cross-border collaboration. Responsible Wood, Australia’s leading forest certification scheme, has partnered with VFCS to create opportunities for cross-border collaboration, capacity building, and shared learning among participants. Responsible Wood sees this…
2022 Timber Design Award Winners Announced The winners of the 23rd Australian Timber Design Awards were announced on Thursday, 8 December at the Crown Hotel Sydney awards event, hosted by The Ultimate Renewable™ Brand Ambassador – Adam Dovile. Each year these awards aim to showcase, advocate, and celebrate a timber design…
Sequestration, Storage & Substitution: Certified Forests & Climate Change With the phrase net zero being bandied around, and the ever-growing public discussion on carbon, climate, and cutting greenhouse gas emissions, there couldn’t be a better time to talk about the role that certified forest management and certified forest products play…
PEFC International Launches New Responsible Packaging Campaign Packaging isn’t just part of the products we buy … it’s a product and an entire industry by itself – in fact a $US900 billion industry. Forest fibre-based packaging is essential to the products we buy online and also the food we eat…
PlantingSeeds’ Nesting Box Project Funded with Community Grant B&B Highway, a bed and breakfast habitat regeneration initiative, has been created by PlantingSeeds to support biodiversity and encourage sustainability within our ecosystem, PlantingSeeds’ microbat nesting box program is a positive case study in these partnerships. The PlantingSeeds’ Nesting Box Project was…
As featured by Timber and Forestry E News The Western Australia College of Agriculture at Denmark, a coastal town 423 km southeast of Perth, has supported a Responsible Wood Community Grant application by land care group Green Skills to upgrade a wetland education and farm forestry site at the college, a…
Marketing & Communications Specialist joins the Responsible Wood Team A promotions and comms specialist with experience in auditing has been appointed in the new marketing and communication at Responsible Wood. In addition to 10 years as a senior audit team leader and compliance officer with Sydney-based Global-Mark, Jonathan Tibbits has…
2022 Community Grants Program Connects Applicants with Certified Forests Responsible Wood has launched our 2022- 23 Community Grants Program which recognises collaborative, community based projects, activities or events that connect communities to certified forests and forest growers. “The aim is to support local communities develop, design and implement small community-based…
On 1 September 2022, Responsible Wood launched its Community Grants Program. This is the program’s third year, following the successful 2020/21 and 2021/22 programs. The aim of the program is to support local communities develop, design and implement small community-based projects in their local area in conjunction with their local…
YOU’VE probably heard of recycled timber, or reclaimed timber as it is sometimes known. But what exactly is it? In this article, we look at what recycled timber is, and how you can support forest conservation efforts by sourcing sustainable timber products. What is recycled timber? Recycled timber is timber…
