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Establishment of SmartWood (1989) -- the first worldwide forest management certification program -- from which an entire certification industry has sprung.
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First forest certifications in Belize, Bolivia, Canada, Guatemala, Honduras, Indonesia, Mexico and Papua New Guinea.
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First certification of public lands in the world (Indonesia, 1990) and in the U.S. (the state-owned Quabbin Reservoir in Massachusetts, 1997).
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First forest certification of indigenous lands in the world (Mexico, 1991).
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First Chain-of-custody certification program in the world -- verification that a product bearing the SmartWood CM seal of approval has been made with certified wood or non-timber forest products (1991).
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First Resource Manager model (1995) -- the process of certifying individuals who are then hired to manage forestlands for several clients but have no legal right to the land -- making certification more accessible to small landholders.
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First SmartWood-certified operation to receive the Presidential Award on Sustainable Development (1996) -- run by the Native American Menominee tribe of Wisconsin.
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First SmartWood-certified guitars -- produced by Gibson USA (1996).
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First SmartWood-certified paper -- produced by Lyons Falls Pulp and Paper of New York (1998).
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First SmartWood Rediscovered certification of an underwater log recovery operation -- Wet Wood Underwater Fiber Recovery, Ltd. of British Columbia (1999).
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First certification of a non-timber forest product -- "Jungle Gum" -- produced with certified chiclé (1999).
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First certification of a wood recycling plant -- Kafus/CanFibre Group Ltd., in California (1999). |
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First certification program for tropical agriculture (1991) -- setting environmental and social guidelines for well-managed farms.
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First certification of a banana farm by the Better Banana Project (1993), which is now the world's largest banana ecolabelling program, certifiying more than 60 million boxes per year or about 10 percent of the bananas produced in Latin America and the Caribbean.
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First environmental and social standards for forested coffee farms (1993) -- developed by the Conservation Agriculture Program and Guatemalan partner organization Fundación Interamericana de Investigación Tropical.
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First conservation program to receive the coveted Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation (1995).
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First certified shade-grown coffee farm -- El Jute, in Guatemala (1996).
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First ECO-O.K. orange juice -- Tree Ripe Valencia Select©, produced by Johanna Foods (NJ) -- available in U.S. supermarkets (1998).
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First certified shade-grown cocoa -- grown by a cooperative in Ecuador (1998).
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First comprehensive attempt to involve coffee farms in protecting national parks and creating biological corridors -- the Coffee and Biodiversity Project (1999). |
