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Finding Product Origins and Environmental Impacts Online?

Ed Matthews asks: "In an attempt to become an ever more informed consumer, I'm looking for a web site where you can enter a product or product type and find out where the raw materials for it come from, where processing and assembly occur, environmental impact etc. Ideally, it would list each step of production, country where it occurs, and as much other information as possible. Lumber is a particularly sensitive product. When I purchase exotic woods at my local home improvement super store, where can I find out which Latin or South American country produced that wood, and what the environmental costs are? Computer chips? Monitors? Coffee? If it just started with houses and automobiles, that would be pretty substantial.Anyone know of a site or sites like this?" While I doubt that there is one site which encompasses all of this functionality, I wouldn't be surprised if there were a few sites that did this for specific products.

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