Links to Dovetail Reports related to Responsible Materials.

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Business Leadership

• Innovations in Design & Construction: Opportunities for the Wood Industry
• Global Competition: An Opportunity for Our Domestic Wood Products Industry
• Organizational Vision & Planning: If you don't know where you're going, any path will get you there!
• Creating Collaboration Out of Chaos: Using conflict resolution processes to bring diverse groups together
• Creating Great Plans: Planning Processes that Work!

Tools for Evaluating Materials

• What is a Responsible Material Anyway?
• Life Cycle Analysis: A Key to Better Environmental Decisions
• Are Life Cycle-Based Labeling and a Broadening of Environmental Certification Programs Needed?
• Wood Products and Carbon Protocols: Carbon Storage and Low Energy Intensity Should Be Considered

Building Material Evaluations

• Bamboo Flooring: Environmental Silver Bullet or Faux Savior?
• Paper from Agricultural Residues
• Tree Free Paper: When Is It Good for the Environment?
• Portland Cement as a Construction Material: How Does It Compare to Wood, Steel?
• Vinyl Siding: At Least It's Maintenance Free, Isn't It?
• Materials Selection in Framing: Is Steel Framing a Good Environmental Choice?
• Solid Wood Products: Green Materials or the Bane of Environmental Sustainability?
• Is the Wood in Your Product Line of Legal Origin?: What is Your Responsibility to Make Sure That It Is?
• Have Tropical Woods in Your Product Line?: How to Know if They Were Harvested Legally, Responsibly
• Chain-of-Custody Certification: What is It, Why do It, and How?
• The FSC Controlled Wood Standard: What it is and what it is for
• Green Building Materials: Made in Minnesota

Recycling and Reuse

• Community-Based Bioenergy and District Heating: Benefits, Challenges, Opportunities and Recommendations for Woody Biomass
• Urban Tree Utilization and Why It Matters
• Reclaiming Lumber Products from Waste Wood
• Firewood Movement and the Emerald Ash Borer
• Paper Recycling in the United States and Beyond: An Update