Give Your Customers the Forest Facts It pays to reassure your customers that the wood you buy comes from an abundant renewable resource. But did you know that North American forests cover about the same area of land as they did 100 years ago? For more information on forests and sustainability, please click here

	GREEN BUILDING NEWS National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) The NAHB's Model Green Home Building Guidelines provide a national baseline for practical green building approaches for the residential construction industry. Developed by a stakeholder group of nearly 60 builders, environmentalists, government agencies and product manufacturers, they are currently being adapted for regional use by individual Home Builder Associations. NAHB Model Green Home Building Guidelines The Green Building Initiative (GBI) The GBI is a not-for-profit organization focused on promoting practical approaches to green building within both the residential and commercial construction industries. Put simply, the GBI goal is to encourage more people to build green. Green Building Initiative The Green Globes™ Environmental Assessment and Rating System for Commercial Buildings Green Globes is a web-based environmental assessment and rating system that also guides the integration of green principles into a building's design. It focuses on practical and affordable options that encourage use of the tool by mainstream builders, and is overseen in the United States by the GBI. Green Globes Environmental Assessment and Rating System Green Globes Article in Environmental Building News