Partnership with SFC

The Sustainable Furnishings Council (501c6) is a coalition of manufacturers, retailers and designers dedicated to raising awareness and expanding the adoption of environmentally sustainable practices across the home furnishings industry.  Sustainable Furnishings Education Fund (501c3,) under the same management as SFC, is dedicated to educating furniture consumers, designers and the residential furnishings industry at large on all aspects of sustainability and the impact of our choices in materials, products, and services.

Our mission is to help companies reduce environmental footprint, and to help consumers find healthier products and design services.  Our strategy for industry transformation is to increase interest in environmentally safe furnishings and promote the development of more sustainable options. We provide guidance, education, promotion, and networking opportunities.  

Our vision is of a world that is comfortably and attractively furnished for EVERYONE.   We see the industry designing, producing and distributing in ways that attempt the lowest possible environmental footprint, furnishing healthy interiors and protecting the natural resources that future generations will need for their own health and prosperity.  Beauty, of course, is in the eye of the beholder, but we believe that a beautiful product avoids harm to health for all of us – whether we are high-end or mass market consumers, whether we are artisans or factory workers or retailers or designers, whether we are upstream or downstream.  Because we are ALL downstream.