My article on Triple Pundit on the latest wood news from the guitar world

Here's an update on a new article I published last Thursday on Triple Pundit with the latest news from the guitar world with regards to wood use.

The article reports on a new Martin guitar made in part of FSC-certified recycled Sitka spruce that comes from dismantled Canadian bridges where it had been used in construction and follows up on the August raid in Gibson Guitar plants, following a suspicion that a shipment of sawn ebony logs from India that was imported by Gibson illegally, violating the Lacey Act.

The article is entitled "Martin Unveils Recycled Wood Guitar, While Gibson Still Fights Raid Fallout". Here's the first part of the article:

If you heard the words “guitar” and “environment” in the same sentence in the last few months you were probably hearing about the raid on Gibson Guitar. While the August raid on Gibson’s factories continues to draw a lot of attention and still gets conservatives and Tea Party supporters angry, another guitar company is coming up this week with an innovative effort to connect the dots between guitars and the environment in a positive way.

To read the full article go to http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/11/victorias-secret-catalogs-getting-greener/

Links to other articles I wrote for Triple Pundit can be found at http://www.triplepundit.com/author/raz-godelnik/

Yours,
Raz @ Eco-Libris

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My article on Triple Pundit on the latest raid on Gibson Guitars

Here's an update on a new article I published today on Triple Pundit on lat week's raid on Gibson Guitars, the second one in two years, following suspicions the company violated the Lacey Act.

The article is entitled "Is Gibson Guitars Unfairly Bullied or Have They Really Screwed Up… Again?". Here's the first paragraph of the article:



Last week, for the second time in two years, federal agents raided the facilities of Gibson Guitars, probably the most well-known guitar maker around the world. Although the two raids are the result of different cases, the accusations then and now are similar – violations of the Lacey Act, a law requiring that all wood products and plants imported into the U.S. come from legal sources.



To read the full article go to http://www.triplepundit.com/2011/08/gibson-guitars-wood-lacey-act/



Links to other articles I wrote for Triple Pundit can be found at http://www.triplepundit.com/author/raz-godelnik/



Image credit: jacksonpe, Flickr Creative Commons

Yours,

Raz @ Eco-Libris



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