Posts Tagged Ecolabel

• Two Community Forests to Pass SCBFM LEI Certification

  More and more sustainable community forest management units have successfully obtained LEI certification. Two community forest management units in Bangkalan and Probolinggo, East Java have been declared to pass the assessment for certification based

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• Ecolabel Certificate to Boost Furniture’s Marketability

  Wood certification is now one of the main requirements for furniture export. Community forest in Wonogiri, Central Java and Gunung Kidul, Yogyakarta is now capable of producing one of the certified raw materials. Communities residing in the areas

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• Misman: Pioneer of first sustainable forests

  Misman might look like your ordinary villager, but the 59-year-old community figure is responsible for transforming his barren Central Java village of Selopuro into Indonesia’s first certifiable sustainable forest. Before the 1980s, Selopuro villa

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• Join Release: MoU between FSC and LEI

  FSC and LEI announce collaboration to advance responsible forest management in Indonesia BONN, Germany (31 May 2010) - The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) and the Lembaga Ekolabel Indonesia (LEI) have announced the launch of an 18-month collabor

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• Certification, A Challenge for Forest Sustainability

  Tuesday, Mei 04, 2010 (SoloPos): The people living in southern part of Java, from Gunungkidul in Yogyakarta, to Batuwarno in Wonogiri and Pacitan in East Java are very lucky for they have been successful in transforming an arid, barren and rocky area

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• Sources of Water and Livelihood Emerge

  Monday, Mei 03, 2010 (SoloPos): Water spurts up to more than 10 meters high when the water pump lever of the drilled-well is turned open, creating raindrops like in the surrounding area. Those gathering around the well run away to avoid the waterdro

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• Reforestation Raises Living Standards in Central Java

  Slamet Susanto, The Jakarta Post, Yogyakarta | Fri, 05/14/2010 9:56 AM | The Archipelago:  Reforestation efforts are benefiting local residents in Selopuro, Wonogiri, Central Java, as they are not only keeping forests green, they are raising living

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• From Rocky Area to Greenery

  It surely is not an easy task to transform the dry arid land that stretches out from Gunungkidul, Wonogiri to Pacitan in southern part of Java into profitable forests. SOLOPOS journalist, Suharsih, writes on her two day journey (Wednesday-Thursday, 2

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• England — Government Initiative on Buying Sustainable Timber

  Environment Secretary Hilary Benn has announced that from 1 April 2010 new social criteria will be added to the UK Government's timber procurement policy, to add to the existing requirement that all Government bought timber is legal and sustainable.

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