Each painting is a story about each piece of furniture is also true.

Just for the production of your sofa, table and chairs had been felled timber, South America, Asia and other places of the forest would become barren and add to the trend of global warming? Or to speculate about your furniture used by the legality of timber production come from?

Today's booming green furniture movement to allow customers to understand their furniture behind the story, and by influencing the activities of each purchase to improve the global environment. The United States recently issued a decree prohibiting the import of illegal logging by the timber-made furniture. The move out, it should reduce spending on furniture in the damage to the environment.

     Refuse "illegal timber" furniture

Timber from Honduras, Russia, the region has been cut down, all over the world to enter the plant, in the end you end of the living room of their journey. According to the U.S. International Trade Commission statistics, with the surge in demand, the United States from 2000 to 2006, imports of furniture increased by 78%.

According to a London-based and non-profit organization in Washington --- the international Environmental Investigation Agency declared that of all imports in the United States wood and wood products, illegal felling of timber share of more than 10%. Most of the illegal logging activities has led to forest degradation. World Wildlife Fund estimates that nearly 20% of the world's greenhouse gas emissions from forest degradation lead. Beyond the control of the felling of trees also pose a threat to wildlife, so that the survival of native species more difficult.

Last May the U.S. Congress passed a landmark law; law, importers have to say that their wood comes from and where the use of illegal felling of timber will be fine. The law also makes the U.S. the world's first ban on illegal timber imports. Report of the system is still sound, solid wood furniture-related enforcement actions will be implemented in the summer of next year.

     Green furniture, certification standards are: FSC

In the United States and other countries, especially the international Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification of the project, the new law continues to add provisions on the protection of forests. FSC logo on products that can be shown that timber harvesting on environmentally responsible, socially beneficial ways.

As a response to the FSC project, the forest products industry to establish a sustainable forestry initiative known as the self-certification system (SFI), so some products may be a sign SFI. However, many green building advocate of an independent inspector and the project continues to believe that FSC has the most comprehensive certification standards.

Although the FSC since the 1990s began in the middle of timber certification, but until recently was widely accepted FSC furniture. Now, as IKEA, Home Depot such major retailers have at least some of the FSC's indoor or outdoor furniture for sale.

Although IKEA in the use of wood has a strong legal provisions, but in order to maintain the uniqueness of the product and refused to use the FSC logo. Sales of other green while most of the furniture retailer will be the FSC logo or name included in the product for customers to find related products.

Some of the main local furniture manufacturers and retailers have accepted the certified furniture. For example, there is a "green lifestyle" green upholstered furniture manufacturers to use only FSC-certified wood sofa framework of its production.

      Furniture "Green" Different Path

In order to achieve a "green furniture", some of the manufacturers of those selected because of disease or trees to be felled to make way for urban construction of the tree. Seattle several furniture manufacturers on the use of such trees to create a beautiful furniture. When a big tree in the yard of the illness will die, had to be cut to bear the pain, but its processing into furniture, it can be turned from worry to joy. Elanwoge furniture stores will be patient with a solid good-looking tree made of the table, from old warehouses and other buildings to the recovery of the timber has become a recycling of materials.

The use of legitimate exploitation of the trees, or FSC wood furniture production is very expensive, but prices such as the popular way to reduce gradually. Of course, in order to achieve the ultimate "green furniture" target, it could be considered from a consignment store or small retail stores to buy timber to be used, or to view classified ads through the online exchange of wood.

Wood is not a source of environmental protection to buy furniture only consideration. For example, according to the Washington Toxics Coalition, you should also avoid buying containing urea-formaldehyde glue and some flame retardants. But because the forest is still the main source of furniture, furniture for the "pursuit of the green," mainly have to start from the timber.