You may remember a post I wrote about a month ago for Blog Action Day about the Music Wood Campaign, a coalition launched by Greenpeace to increase the supply of woods traditionally used in the building of guitars that come from trees grown in a sustainable fashion. On the same day over on gearpipe.org, I posted my ten ways to be a more environmentally responsible musician.

I thought more about this the other day when I heard about the raid on the Gibson Guitar offices in Nashville for an alleged violation of the Lacey Act, an environmental law, for importing endangered species of rosewood from Madagascar. I have no idea whether Gibson is guilty or not, but it is interesting that they are one of the companies that have partnered up on the Music Wood Campaign.

This morning I came across a great article in Musical Merchandise Review (a trade magazine for the musical instruments industry) called “The Environmental Consequences of Guitar Making: The Present, and the Future.” It’s a fantastic article and I thought I’d share it with all of you. You can read it here.