Earthworm Foundation (EF) formerly known as The Forest Trust (TFT) is a global non-profit organisation that helps companies and communities deliver Responsible Products. We act on the ground in forests, farms and factories to help create products that respect the environment and improve people's lives.EF works on the ground with companies and communities to seek solutions that transform products’ stories and their impact on people and the environment. By changing the story of our products, we change the story of our planet.HistoryIn 1999, six companies trading in garden furniture founded the Tropical Forest Trust (now EF) to help them secure wood from legal and well-managed forests. To solve these companies’ wood sourcing problems, EF innovated effective ways to link businesses to well-managed tropical forests and introduced systems to verify that illegal wood was excluded from their supply chains.Eleven years later, our members base has grown to 80 leading global retailers and manufacturers and our projects have expanded to impact 8.5 million hectares of land. We have made ground-breaking achievements in forest conservation and supply chain sustainability and transformed the European trade in hardwood garden furniture by working with companies such as B&Q, Marks & Spencer, E.Leclerc, Leroy Merlin and Crate & Barrel in the U.S.Product & ServicesSince our founding in 1999 our main focus has been to provide solutions to the issue of deforestation and the empowerment of forest dependent communities. We have helped companies transform their timber supply chains and stop forest destruction. Through the same model, we involved institutional donors and individuals looking to build capacity on the ground thus giving communities and local companies the tools to provide responsible wood products to world markets.Having established a strong record of achievement in wood products, EF are now addressing social and environmental concerns throughout the value chain of a much broader range of products including; Paper, Palm Oil, Cotton, Soy, Stone and Leather & Shoes.Now with offices in 16 countries, we’re working on a broad range of products using our supply chain expertise to identify and address the social and environmental issues embedded in them with a strong focus on natural resource management and traceability. From forests and farms in Indonesia, Brazil and Cameroon to factories in China and India and retail stores in Europe and the US our experts are on the ground making real change happen, helping businesses and communities deliver responsible products.
Earthworm Foundation (EF) formerly known as The Forest Trust (TFT) is a global non-profit organisation that helps companies and communities deliver Responsible Products. We act on the ground in forests, farms and factories to help create products that respect the environment and improve people's lives.EF works on the ground with companies and communities to seek solutions that transform products’ stories and their impact on people and the environment. By changing the story of our products, we change the story of our planet.HistoryIn 1999, six companies trading in garden furniture founded the Tropical Forest Trust (now EF) to help them secure wood from legal and well-managed forests. To solve these companies’ wood sourcing problems, EF innovated effective ways to link businesses to well-managed tropical forests and introduced systems to verify that illegal wood was excluded from their supply chains.Eleven years later, our members base has grown to 80 leading global retailers and manufacturers and our projects have expanded to impact 8.5 million hectares of land. We have made ground-breaking achievements in forest conservation and supply chain sustainability and transformed the European trade in hardwood garden furniture by working with companies such as B&Q, Marks & Spencer, E.Leclerc, Leroy Merlin and Crate & Barrel in the U.S.Product & ServicesSince our founding in 1999 our main focus has been to provide solutions to the issue of deforestation and the empowerment of forest dependent communities. We have helped companies transform their timber supply chains and stop forest destruction. Through the same model, we involved institutional donors and individuals looking to build capacity on the ground thus giving communities and local companies the tools to provide responsible wood products to world markets.Having established a strong record of achievement in wood products, EF are now addressing social and environmental concerns throughout the value chain of a much broader range of products including; Paper, Palm Oil, Cotton, Soy, Stone and Leather & Shoes.Now with offices in 16 countries, we’re working on a broad range of products using our supply chain expertise to identify and address the social and environmental issues embedded in them with a strong focus on natural resource management and traceability. From forests and farms in Indonesia, Brazil and Cameroon to factories in China and India and retail stores in Europe and the US our experts are on the ground making real change happen, helping businesses and communities deliver responsible products.
Earthworm Foundation (EF) formerly known as The Forest Trust (TFT) is a global non-profit organisation that helps companies and communities deliver Responsible Products. We act on the ground in forests, farms and factories to help create products that respect the environment and improve people's lives.EF works on the ground with companies and communities to seek solutions that transform products’ stories and their impact on people and the environment. By changing the story of our products, we change the story of our planet.HistoryIn 1999, six companies trading in garden furniture founded the Tropical Forest Trust (now EF) to help them secure wood from legal and well-managed forests. To solve these companies’ wood sourcing problems, EF innovated effective ways to link businesses to well-managed tropical forests and introduced systems to verify that illegal wood was excluded from their supply chains.Eleven years later, our members base has grown to 80 leading global retailers and manufacturers and our projects have expanded to impact 8.5 million hectares of land. We have made ground-breaking achievements in forest conservation and supply chain sustainability and transformed the European trade in hardwood garden furniture by working with companies such as B&Q, Marks & Spencer, E.Leclerc, Leroy Merlin and Crate & Barrel in the U.S.Product & ServicesSince our founding in 1999 our main focus has been to provide solutions to the issue of deforestation and the empowerment of forest dependent communities. We have helped companies transform their timber supply chains and stop forest destruction. Through the same model, we involved institutional donors and individuals looking to build capacity on the ground thus giving communities and local companies the tools to provide responsible wood products to world markets.Having established a strong record of achievement in wood products, EF are now addressing social and environmental concerns throughout the value chain of a much broader range of products including; Paper, Palm Oil, Cotton, Soy, Stone and Leather & Shoes.Now with offices in 16 countries, we’re working on a broad range of products using our supply chain expertise to identify and address the social and environmental issues embedded in them with a strong focus on natural resource management and traceability. From forests and farms in Indonesia, Brazil and Cameroon to factories in China and India and retail stores in Europe and the US our experts are on the ground making real change happen, helping businesses and communities deliver responsible products.