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What Packaging Professionals Should Know About Sourcing Fiber

November 2019

(a slide from the Essentials of Sourcing Fiber course)  Designing packaging with sustainably sourced fiber provides an excellent opportunity to use a …

Interview with Alabama Tree Farmers Dr. and Mrs. Saloom

April 2017

Tom Pollock, Senior Manager of Forest Products at GreenBlue, sat down with Dianne and Dr. Salem Saloom to talk about …

Conservation Nonprofits Announce Plans To Develop New Forest Assurance Model

September 2016

GreenBlue and the American Forest Foundation Leading Multi-Stakeholder Process to Build a New Model for Evaluating Sustainable Forestry in the …

Building Trust as a Strategy for Sustainable Forest Management

June 2016

This past March a group of global brands including HAVI Global, McDonald’s, Macmillan Publishing, Mars, Staples, and Time Inc., met …

Rising Markets Lift All Boats

April 2016

Just this month, GreenBlue’s Forest Products Working Group, and the American Forest Foundation (AFF) hosted the Woodland Owner and Brand …

Woodland Owner-Brand Owner Summit allows for open, honest dialogue on sustainable forest management

March 2016

This past week GreenBlue’s Forest Products Working Group, and the American Forest Foundation (AFF) hosted a successful, first-of-its kind summit, …

Woodland Owner and Brand Owner Summit 2016 gallery

March 2016

Sustainable Forestry and Certification Programs in the United States

November 2015

By the American Forest & Paper Association The paper on Sustainable Forestry and Certification Programs in the United States provides …

Introduction to Certification

August 2015

Growing environmental awareness and consumer demand for more socially responsible businesses helped third-party forest certification emerge in the 1990s as …