Carbon Emissions

J.D. Irving Sawmills Make the Switch to Biomass

J.D. Irving, Limited, (JDI) is an integrated forest products company based in New Brunswick, Canada. JDI forests supply The Home Depot’s eastern stores with lumber. While JDI is a leader in ecological forest management practices, they are quickly becoming a leader in clean energy. The company has begun investing in biomass boilers to aid in …
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Sustainable Forestry

Want to Help Protect Forests? Here’s how.

Trees and the products they provide are an essential part of our daily lives. None of us should have to choose between using the products we enjoy today and what we all need to preserve our tomorrow. If you want to help protect forests, choose brands that are committed to responsible forestry. P&G brands, including …
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Project

How to Plant a Tree

Hardworking trees reduce pollution, release oxygen, and give us privacy and shade.

Sustainable Forestry

How Do You Fight Climate Change? Trees and 2x4s. Lots of Them.

Sustainable forestry has been a passion and strategy for The Home Depot for over 25 years. Over the years, we have established supply chain protocols to ensure visibility into where our products come from and to safeguard the health of these forests. One example of this is our preference for certified wood. Wood is considered …
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Sustainable Forestry

Creating Wildfire-Resilient Forests in California Helps Us All

Wood may be one of the easiest products to connect back to the environment. Behind most wood products you see at The Home Depot, there are forests. For products made by Mendocino Redwood Company (MRC), those forests are carefully managed with two goals in mind: sustainability and productivity. Balancing sustainability and productivity means managing both …
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Project

How to Stake a Tree

Keep young trees growing strong by staking them.

Product

FSC-Certified Wood

Certifies responsibly managed forests that protect water quality and biodiversity, and prohibits harvest of rare, old-growth forest

Product

Dark Sky-Approved Light Fixtures

Avoid light pollution and neighbor disputes by putting light where it’s needed, not in the sky or in a neighbor’s window