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• Title: Skal
  Link:

  http://www.skal.nl/English/tabid/103/language/nl-NL/Default.aspx
  Body:

  Skal is the inspection and certification body for organic production in the Netherlands. The organization provides information for agricultural production, processing of agricultural products, import of products from outside the EU, trade and storage companies.

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• Title: Specialty Sleep Association
  Link:

  http://www.sleepinformation.org/
  Body:

  The Specialty Sleep Association (SSA) is a non-profit advocacy and education association of retailers, manufacturers and suppliers who develop, manufacture and market and sell innovative, new-technology mattress and bedding products.

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• Title: Sustainable Packaging Alliance
  Link:

  http://www.sustainablepack.org/default.aspx
  Body:

  SPA aims to be an international focal point for knowledge, tools and expertise that catalyse and facilitate continuous improvement in the environmental performance and sustainability of packaging systems.
  
  

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• Title: Sustainable Packaging Coalition
  Link:

  http://www.sustainablepackaging.org/
  Body:

  The Sustainable Packaging Coalition® (SPC) is an industry working group dedicated to a more robust environmental vision for packaging. Through strong member support, an informed and science-based approach, supply chain collaborations and continuous outreach, they endeavor to build packaging systems that encourage economic prosperity and a sustainable flow of materials. The SPC is a project of GreenBlue®, a nonprofit sustainability institute.

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• Title: SWIFT - Sample Waste Initiative for the Furniture and Textile Industries
  Link:

  http://www.sustainablefurnishings.org/content/swift
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  The SWIFT mission is to find ways to reduce, reuse and recycle fabric samples, with the goal of a 50% reduction in dump-destined waste within 5 years.

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• Title: USGBC - U.S. Green Building Council
  Link:

  http://www.usgbc.org/
  Body:

  The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings accessible to everyone within a generation.

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• Title: We Can Solve It
  Link:

  http://www.wecansolveit.org/
  Body:

  The We Campaign is a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection -- a nonprofit, nonpartisan effort founded by Nobel laureate and former Vice President Al Gore. The goal of the Alliance is to build a movement that creates the political will to solve the climate crisis -- in part through repowering America with 100 percent of its electricity from clean energy sources within 10 years.

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• Title: World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO)
  Link:

  http://www.wfto.com/
  Body:

  Membership of the WFTO is limited to organizations that demonstrate a 100% Fair Trade commitment and apply its 10 Principles of Fair Trade. WFTO members who are monitored against these Principles are listed in the FT100 index of world-leading Fair Trade brands, businesses and organizations. The WFTO represents Fair Traders from grassroots through to the G8 and is the authentic voice of Fair Trade, having driven the movement for 20 years. It is the only global network whose members represent the Fair Trade chain from production to sale.

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• Title: WRAP
  Link:

  http://www.wrap.org.uk/retail/the_guide_to_evolving_packaging_design/index.html
  Body:

  This UK based site provides online guidance provides ideas, tips and practical tools to help you change the way packaging is produced and used.

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• Title: WRI - The World Resources Institute
  Link:

  http://www.wri.org/
  Body:

  WRI provides—and helps other institutions provide—objective information and practical proposals for policy and institutional change that will foster environmentally sound, socially equitable development.

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