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SFC Presents Cradle To Cradle Thinking - What it is, What it can do for you

Jan 26, 1pm, C-0444 - Join us!

Social media-driven consumer campaign aims to raise awareness about sustainable home furnishings among home furnishings enthusiasts and purchasers

Chapel Hill, NC — The Sustainable Furnishings Council and Hearst Corporation’s House Beautiful and ELLE DECOR brands are taking to the streets of New York in 2014 to
raise awareness about sustainable design.

Beginning in March 2014, select SFC members will be featured in House Beautiful’s

hugely successful and popular Social Media Color Celebration and Chair Chase

Check out this great video about Follow the Frog Week. Post it to bring awareness to the issues facing our planet.
http://my.rainforest-alliance.org/site/PageNavigator/followthefrog.html?...

Sustainable Furnishings Council Earth Day Luncheon on Monday, April 22, 2013 from 12:30pm - 1:30pm. IHFC- 11th Floor, Green Wing Ballroom

 CHAPEL HILL, NC – The Sustainable Furnishings Council announced today it has named its 2013 Officers of the Board.  Steve Freeman of Room and Board serves as President, Robin Wilson of Robin Wilson Home serves as Vice-President, Greg Harden of Harden Furniture serves as Treasurer, and Peggy Burns of Circle Furniture serves as Secretary.  Other new appointments to the Board include Amy Smith of WWF/GFTN and Norman Coley of Lee Industries.  SFC Board members take responsibility for the organization’s mission, developing goals annually and ensuring that program

You are invited to a FREE presentation by Susan Inglis from the SFC at The Arrangement in Dallas on Saturday, November 17, 2012 at 9:00 am. Breakfast will be provided! .1 CEU

See you there!

HIGH POINT, N.C. – Gat Creek, a West Virginia-based producer of hand-crafted, solid wood furniture and Sustainable Furnishings Council Silver Exemplary Member, received the 2012 Sage Award for environmental excellence today.

The Sage Awards were launched in 2008 by the American Home Furnishings Alliance (AHFA) to seek out and spotlight environmental innovators from whom others in the home furnishings and bedding industries can learn. The competition is open to retail, manufacturing and supplier companies in both the furniture and bedding industries.

Peggy Grossman of OEcoTextiles presented the implications of textile manufacturing in a webinar in September.  Read about the environmental impact of textile manufacturing and learn how you can be a smart consumer. 

Interior designers in Virginia used a Habitat for Humanity ReStore to create amazing room displays for the Home Show at the Dulles Expo Center in Metro Washington, D.C. Shopping exclusively in a local ReStore, which sells gently used and donated household material, designers crafted an urban-chic loft room, a British Colonial/West Indies-inspired master bedroom suite, and a beach room to rival anything in the finest resort homes.