New Desk
So I’m all set to get a new desk for Christmas. There is not a whole lot of secrecy in my family’s christmas gifts. Normally a kid would write to santa when they want to ask for what they want. In my family we email our wish lists to each other. There is less surprise when you get exactly what you asked for but it turns out that you open presents that contain exactly what you want. Anyhow my big ticket item is sucking up most of my christmas gift fund, and it’s a desk. So my requirements were that it be as sustainably made as possible (Using FSC wood), made as close to me as possible (I didn’t want one made in china), of good quality so that I don’t junk it in a few years, and one that I can easily move into a new apartment (easy to go around corners and doesn’t require me to find 3 friends to move). I tried craigslist, but everything on craigslist failed miserably on at least one of my requirements along with sometimes being a just plain bad desk. So I decided on a legare desk. It meets most of my requirements except it is made in Texas which is a bit farther away than I had hoped. Other than that it seems to be the perfect fit.
It’s kind of like legos but at the end you have a desk instead of a small plastic Castle. I guess the desk could be used to hold your plastic castle because lets just face facts here: castles are cool.
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I respect your integrity in office furniture selection. I also respect your admiration of castles. I was surprised (pleasantly!) to see that according to this web page: http://www.rainforests.net/top5woodbuyers.htm
that the top 3 consumers of wood in the world are committed to buying FSC wood. Ikea is #3. I did know that Ikea is committed to environmental responsibility, but it’s hard to really know what’s going on with big companies.
Evidently Home Depot in the US refuses to even label its FSC products because they’re afraid their non-FSC products would no longer sell, and there’s just not enough FSC wood produced in the US.
Anyway, I didn’t notice on the Legare web page a listing of where they got their wood. There are only about 9 million hectares of FSC forest in the US (compare with 11 million in Sweden, a country about the size of California). There is more than one reason to purchase locally-produced goods, but if the materials are imported from Brazil or Russia, the argument for reduced impact due to shipping might be reduced.
But also? That’s an awesome looking desk, and I like the assembly technique.
Yeah I found out that the FSC wood comes from Russia which adds a bunch of shipping to the wood
I wonder if it is just that loggers here don’t want to have sustainable practices or what. Perhaps my purchase will help encourage more local loggers to go FSC.