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  • SFC Events at World Market Center Las Vegas - Registration is open
    Monday, January 18, 2010 - 2:49pm

    ECOngress 2010  Phillips Collection Kick Off Mixer  DESIGNINGreen Symposium 2/2/10    GL Registration

  • Announcing ONE GOOD WORLD ECOngress: Legal Wood Sourcing & Building Green Markets Las Vegas Market 1-31-10
    Tuesday, January 5, 2010 - 5:39pm

     

     
    FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 01/05/10
     
    Media Contacts:
    SFC/Susan Inglis        susan@sustainablefurnishings.org 919.967.1137
    Announcing ONE GOOD WORLD ECOngress: Legal Wood Sourcing & Building Green Markets Las Vegas Market 1-31-10

    CHAPEL HILL, NC – The Sustainable Furnishings Council and World Market Center, in cooperation with World Wildlife Fund, Rainforest Alliance, Forest Stewardship Council and numerous other leading governmental, environmental, academic and trade organizations is launching the first cross-disciplinary ECOngress on legal and sustainable wood sourcing in the home furnishings industry in conjunction with Winter Market in Las Vegas. All media, materials suppliers, manufacturers, retailers and designers are strongly encouraged to attend all or part of the one-day event on Jan. 31, 2010, the day prior to the opening day of the February 2010 Las Vegas Market, from 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. in World Market Center’s Building C, on the 8th floor, Room C-888. Registration is free. 

  • ONE GOOD WORLD ECOngress: Sourcing Legal Wood and Building Green Markets
    Monday, December 21, 2009 - 7:49pm
    Save the Date! January 31, 2010   ONE GOOD WORLD ECOngress: Sourcing Legal Wood & Building Green Markets
  • Vladimir Kagan, Thom Filicia, Alexander Julian discuss sustainable home furnishings
    Saturday, October 24, 2009 - 12:00am

    Following is an edited transcript of a roundtable discussion moderated by Jeff Hiller, president of the Sustainable Furnishings Council, that took place Monday, Oct. 19, 2009, at the High Point Market, in Ballroom B of the IHFC building, with participants Thom Filicia, Alexander Julian and Vladimir Kagan. The event took place on the third anniversary of the founding of the SFC. Also that morning, Hiller  announced the launch of a new consumer education and awareness initiative to feature the SFC's new DESIGNINGreen Leadership Team of celebrity designers and industry personalities who design for sustainable manufacturers and/or use sustainable practices in their work. --Susan Pyle Dickenson, Home Accents Today

    Jeff Hiller's opening remarks: (Three years ago) we incorporated (the Sustainable Furnishings Council) as a nonprofit and off we went. Establishing standards for the industry was our first challenge, then building up our membership. Our membership was 41 three years ago, as of today, we have 400 manufacturers, retailers, interior designers, design organizations, responsible members of our community, all kinds of people sincerely committed to doing the right thing. So we have some market mass now and what we need to do is turn the page.

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