"We get as close to looking at every single bat that we can see in a team's inventory," said Scott Drake, the vice president for operations at Timberco of Sun Prairie, Wis., a wood-certification company hired by Major League Baseball.
The 503-room hotel, currently trying to earn the Green Building Council's LEED certification, has a 57,000-square-foot sun deck with pools for adults and children.
Although this certification prefers shade-grown coffee farms, sun coffee farms are allowed when environmental conditions are not appropriate for shade-grown coffee.
This certification program does encourage shade and sun coffee farmers to use more environmentally friendly integrated pest management and other sustainable practices like growing tree fences and herbaceous plants to prevent soil erosion or reduce water contamination from coffee processes.
Since receiving official certification from Lighting Africa, a joint IFC and World Bank program, over 165,000 Little Sun lamps have been distributed--bringing solar light to Uganda, Kenya, Burundi, Senegal, Ethiopia, South Africa, and Zimbabwe, as well as the European Union, the United States, Canada, Australia, and Japan.
Even if demand, which has lagged in the South and other Sun Belt states, picks up, the Agriculture Department requires a three-year waiting period for farms to win organic certification.
certification for his clinics.
Certification is now voluntary.
The date for certification.
