The GreenSTOCKd Blog

I blogged a while back about Julia Roberts’s new Malibu mansion, built from sustainably forested wood. A sustainably managed forest is more than just one where trees are planted to replace those cut down; the entire ecological balance must be taken into account as well as the state of communities affected by the forest. There’s a whole certification process that goes into this type of wood, headed up by people who really aren’t motivated by money (yes, there are still a couple of those folks kicking around) and surprisingly enough, encouraged by such giants as Lowe’s and Home Depot, who give preference to certified lumber and thus a big boost to small, conscientious manufacturers. This certified lumber tends not to be sold at prices that accurately reflect what goes into the process (while people like the idea of sustainably forested wood, the average consumer will only spend slightly more on it). Your average guitar player, however, may be a different story.