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Las Vegas Market, Sustainable Furnishings Council teaming up for ECOngress

Jan. 31 event will focus on sourcing legal wood, building green markets

Furniture Today Staff -- Furniture Today, December 23, 2009

LAS VEGAS — The Sustainable Furnishings Council is partnering with the World Market Center and World Wildlife Fund to stage a one-day conference here Jan. 31 on sourcing legal wood and building green markets.

Billed as the ECOngress, the event will bring together leaders from U.S. government, environmental groups, academic institutions, forest landowners, Top 25 furniture manufacturers and retailers, interior design associations and consumer media to discuss the impact of the Lacey Act Amendments, which go into effect April 2010. The new law reinforces the grounds for legal prosecution of anyone found guilty of importing, transporting, selling or purchasing any furniture using illegally harvested wood from the United States or abroad.

The conference is structured as three plenary sessions on policy, manufacturing and consumer marketing, each consisting of a series of short presentations followed by in-depth panel discussions open to questions from all attendees.

Sixteen speaker panelists will represent major organizations as diverse as the Global Forest & Trade Network, U.S. Department of Justice, Forest Stewardship Council, Weyerhaeuser, Savannah College of Art & Design, Century Furniture, Williams-Sonoma and Architectural Digest.

To register, e-mail susan@sustainablefurnishings.org.

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UPDATE: SFC, World Market Center to host ECOngress

Dec 29, 2009

SFC, World Market Center to host ECOngress

Jan 4, 2010

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