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THE LACEY ACT
THE LACEY ACT
SOURCING MATERIAL MEANS ETHICAL CHOICE.
TIMOTHY, FURNITURE DESIGNER, INTERVIEWS
AN ADVOCATE FOR LOCAL LUMBER.
LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW NOW >>
SOURCING MATERIAL MEANS ETHICAL CHOICE.
TIMOTHY, FURNITURE DESIGNER, INTERVIEWS
AN ADVOCATE FOR LOCAL LUMBER.
LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW NOW >>
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In today's podcast, furniture designer Timothy Aaron Huston interviews advocate Anne Middleton of the Environmental Investigation Agency about the Lacey Act, a controversial new United States ban on trade in illegal wood. "Lacey helps level the playing field for the good actors," says Middleton in support of small family lumber farms such as those in Pennsylvania where Timothy sources his wood. But American musical instruments maker Gibson Guitars (Nashville, Tennessee) is an outspoken opponent of the Lacey Act. Their fingerboards use a rainforest-derived Indian ebony wood that Gibson describes as essential to their designs. "Even if you remove the environmental perspective," argues Middleton, "the biodiversity, the greenhouse gasses—you've still got such a strong human and economic component that it's a really great law." |
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