FSC-Certified Gift Guide

 

FSC-Certified Lumber.

Why Buy FSC?

Learn more about why The Nature Conservancy supports FSC-Certified products.

Can You Save Orangutans With a Bookshelf?

Thanks in part to a new Nature Conservancy-supported agreement between China and the United States, people around the world will now have more power to save forests and fight climate change.

FSC-Certified Play Kitchen.

Few people know where the wood that makes up their purchased furniture or paper products came from.

And probably fewer know whether those forests were sustainably managed and legally harvested before that timber became a coffee table or a paper card.

But knowing is important — because more than 25 percent of the hardwood lumber and plywood traded today may be harvested illegally and managed unsustainably.

Illegal logging and deforestation have devastating consequences — such as the loss of habitat and increased carbon emissions causing climate change — for people, wildlife and the natural systems that depend on healthy forests.

Buying wood and paper products that are certified by the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) — goods that are guaranteed to have come from sustainably-managed and legally-harvested forests — is a great way to ensure that your magazine or wooden bauble didn’t cost an orangutan its home.

This holiday season, The Nature Conservancy is providing you with a guide to buying FSC-Certified gifts.

So shop till you drop, and be certain that your gift is a sustainable one.

Paper and StationaryPaper and Stationary

Personalized holiday cards at My Good Greeting 

The Nature Conservancy's 2009 calendar (left), in our online shop

JewelryJewelry

Chunky salvaged earrings

Wood cuff bracelet (left)

Wooden Ornaments and CarvingsWood Ornaments and Carvings

Salvatierra Bolivian sun ornament (left), in our online shop 

Various wood carvings at Salvatierra Imports
 

ToysToys

Toys R Us Race car and shape sorter

Oompa Toys Rocking Horse  

Natural Pod Chef's Kitchen (left)

FurnitureFurniture

Crate and Barrel Nesting Tables

Smith and Hawken Accent Table

 

Food and DrinkFood and Drink

Willamette Valley Vineyards Wine (uses FSC-Certified cork)

Paperstone Cutting Boards

 

In addition to these FSC-Certified gifts, you can plant trees or adopt an acre of rainforest with The Nature Conservancy.

Nature picture credits (top to bottom, left to right): Photo © Natural Pod Toys (play kitchen); Photo © FSC-US (FSC-Certified lumber); Photo © TNC (2009 calendar); Photo © PrasseInDesign Studios (wood bracelet); Photo © TNC (ornament); Photo © Natural Pod Toys (play kitchen); Photo © Kevin Horan (FSC-certified furniture); Photo © Willamette Valley Vineyards (certified cork wine bottle).