| June
2005 e-newsletter
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This newsletter is
sponsored by Trimland (http://www.trimland.com)
and Shutter Smart (http://www.shuttersmart.com)
OCTOBER AGAIN NATIONAL WINDOW COVERING SAFETY MONTH
For the third year in a row, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC)
and the Window Covering Safety Council (WCSC), New York, NY, are joining forces
to declare October National Window Covering Safety Month.
The month-long, nationwide campaign is designed to increase consumer awareness
of cord-safety concerns and to urge parents with young children to repair or
replace pre-2001 corded blinds, shades and draperies with today’s safer
products.
To simplify industry participation, the “Kids, Cords, Caution” safety
slogan will be used again as the unifying theme for the promotional campaign.
WCSC is providing artwork, ad templates and cord-safety information for reproduction
and use by industry members and retailers in promoting the safety month.
Materials can be downloaded at no charge from the Internet at www.windowcoverings.org/industry.
Access requires a user name and password. The user name is Industry. The password
is October.
HARTMANN & FORBES GOES GREEN
Hartmann & Forbes, Wilsonville, OR, has launched Project-Green™ in
an effort to expand its environmental policies and procedures. Founded in 1998,
the company specializes in fine, hand-woven Roman shades, bamboo cornices, hand-woven
draperies and panel screen.
With the support of the University of Oregon’s Lundquist College of Business
Sustainable Supply Chain Management initiative, the company will develop a strategy
to close the loop in its manufacturing process so that responsibly harvested
organic products end their life cycles by being returned to the ambient environment.
In its first major endeavor under Project-Green, Hartmann & Forbes is developing
a take-back initiative in which customers can send back used organic window coverings
so the company can turn the material into compost at a local Oregon recycling
facility.
SEEING DESIGN IN A WHOLE NEW LIGHT
Lighting is one of the most important parts of interior decorating. Specifying
the right lighting sets the mood of the room and affects the personalities—even
the health—of the people occupying the space.
In the summer months, controlling bright sunlight in our interiors becomes a
bigger concern. This month, Sharon Anderson takes a quick look at different types
of artificial light while Karla Nielson and Virginia Kubler suggest ways to control
the summer sunshine.
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