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Follow the links to the right to learn more about important sustainability issues pertaining to home furnishings.

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  • Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education

    AASHE is an association of colleges and universities that are working to create a sustainable future. Their mission is to empower higher education to lead the sustainability transformation. They do this by providing resources, professional development, and a network of support to enable institutions of higher education to model and advance sustainability in everything they do, from governance and operations to education and research.

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  • BALLE -The Business Alliance for Local Living Economies

    BALLE brings small business leaders together to help business use less energy, produce less waste, help customers understand that locally-owned businesses are important to the strength of our community, and discover that new business opportunities exist in regions for the emerging green economy.

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  • CARE-Carpet America Recovery Effort

    Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) is a joint industry-government effort to increase the amount of recycling and reuse of post-consumer carpet and reduce the amount of waste carpet going to landfills.

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  • Clean Car Campaign

    A national campaign coordinated by state, regional and national environmental organizations promoting a clean revolution in the motor vehicle industry. In particular, the campaign seeks to promote the development and sale of advanced technology vehicles that meet a high standard of environmental performance.

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  • CNN - Climate Neutral Network

    The key objective of the Climate Neutral Network is to facilitate information exchange and networking to achieve a transition to a low-emissions and eventually climate neutral society.

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  • Environmental Investigation Agency (eia)

    EIA is an international environmental campaigning organization that uses investigative techniques to expose environmental crimes and campaign against illegal wildlife trade and threats to our global environment.

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  • EPAT-Environmental Paper Assessment Tool

    EPAT is an evaluation tool that translates technical paper supply chain data into a context businesses can use to select environmentally preferable paper products. EPAT does not determine “good vs. bad” paper products for users. EPAT is a data-driven tool for the purpose of “knowing vs. not-knowing” so users can select paper products that meet their own environmental goals.

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  • Fair Trade Federation

    The Fair Trade Federation is the trade association that strengthens and promotes North American organizations fully committed to fair trade. The Federation is part of the global fair trade movement, building equitable and sustainable trading partnerships and creating opportunities to alleviate poverty. The Federation's values guide their work to create a just and sustainable economic system.

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  • GEN- Global Ecolabelling Network

    A non-profit association of third-party, environmental performance labelling organizations founded in 1994 to improve, promote, and develop the "ecolabelling" of products and services.

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  • Green Drinks

    A monthly green networking event open to all and with chapters worldwide.

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