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SOME OF THE GREEN GUIDE EDITORS’ FAVORITE GREEN PRODUCTS

Les Paul SmartWood
Electric Guitar

The Rainforest Alliance’s Smart Wood certification provides consumers with a much needed guarantee that hardwoods were harvested responsibly. Certified producers take steps to, among other things, maximize habitat and watershed preservation and minimize the use of synthetic pesticides. The design of the Smart Wood Les Paul mahogany and muirapiranga electric guitar is as legendary as Les Paul himself, who, the Green Guide staff discovered on a recent outing, can still play a mean riff at 92.

$1,698; gibson.com, 800-444-2766

Written by Solvie Karlstrom Photographs by Davies + Starr