Fort Carson

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Fort Carson Sustainability Goal Update (Draft
) Goal 9 Sustainable Procurement Date 15
November 2009 Goal Proponent MacDonald Kemp,
DMWR Team Leaders Alicia Archibald
Christopher Juniper, DECAM
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Goal 9 All Department of Defense and Fort
Carson procurement actions support sustainability
by 2027.Note All DoD means DoD procurement
for Fort Carson use

• Objective 9.1 HotSpot and QuickFix progress
  toward more sustainable procurement performance.
  
• Target by FY2012 Fifteen HotSpots and
  QuickFixes identified, baselined and addressed
• Target by FY2017 60 improvement from baselines
  and 5 new HotSpots or QuickFixes
• Initiatives in Support of Objective 9.1 (FY08/09)
  
• Initiative 9.1.1 Creation of a
  multi-directorate Sustainable Procurement Working
• Initiative 9.1.2 HotSpots and QuickFixes are
  identified, baselined

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Goal 9 All Department of Defense and Fort
Carson procurement actions support sustainability
by 2027.Note All DoD means DoD procurement
for Fort Carson use

• Objective 9.2 Green and Sustainable Product
  Availability Achieving continual progress
  towards greater availability of green and
  sustainable products manufactured in the Fort
  Carson Region and/or readily available to Fort
  Carson purchasers.
• Target by FY2012 Achieving 100 of HotSpots and
  QuickFixes readily available.
• Target by FY2017 At least 5 new HotSpots and
  QuickFixes are readily available.
• Initiatives in Support of Objective 9.2 (FY08/09)
  
• Initiative 9.2.1 Regional green/sustainable
  product/service scan
• Initiative 9.2.2 Regional green/sustainable
  product/service vendor education program

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Goal 9 All Department of Defense and Fort
Carson procurement actions support sustainability
by 2027.Note All DoD means DoD procurement
for Fort Carson use

• Objective 9.3 Establish and maintain the
  governance of the Fort Carson Sustainable
  Procurement System
• Target by FY2012 Sustainable Procurement Working
  Group improve benchmarking process and ToolBox
  tools Fort Carson use
• Target by FY2017 refine/improve annually
• Initiatives in Support of Objective 9.3 (FY08/09)
  
• Initiative 9.3.1 Establish benchmarking to best
  practices of other agencies/companies.
• Initiative 9.3.2 Tool Box development and
  improvement

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Goal 9 All Department of Defense and Fort
Carson procurement actions support sustainability
by 2027.Note All DoD means DoD procurement
for Fort Carson use

• Objective 9.4 Sustainable Procurement Education
  - achieve elevated levels of green and
  sustainable procurement education through
  training.
• Target by FY2012 Creation and implementation of
  science education and sustainable procurement
  education tools by end of FY2008.
• Target by FY2017 refine/improve annually
• Initiatives in Support of Objective 9.4 (FY08/09)
  
• Initiative 9.4.1 Science education
• Initiative 9.4.2 Sustainable procurement
  education

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Fort Carson Goal 9 Sustainable
Procurement Green Cleaning Date 15 November
2009 Briefer Cpt. Teal Reeves
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Green Cleaning at the MEDDAC Barracks

• CPT Teal Reeves
• Chief, Environmental Health

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What is Green Cleaning?

• Green Cleaning is cleaning using products that do
  not endanger people or the environment
• This is especially critical to those who have
  respiratory conditions (such as asthma), or
  sensitive skin (dermatitis)
• It involves using products that have been proven
  to be safer to the environment and human health
• Green Seal certified products

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Why Implement Green Cleaning?

• Americans spend an estimated 90 of their time
  indoors, breathing indoor air
• This air is often harmful due to VOCs from
  cleaning products
• Green cleaning reduces our impact on the
  environment
• Concentrated formulas?less transportation, less
  packaging
• Non-toxic chemicals do not enter wastestream or
  air
• Green cleaning often costs less!

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What has the MEDDAC done?

• Housekeeping staff has made it their Performance
  Improvement project to move to all Green Seal
  Certified products, and extended this into the
  barracks by training the occupants
• Soldiers can only use Green Seal Certified
  cleaning products in the common areas and
  personal areas

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LEED Status

• Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design
• This Green Building Rating System is the
  nationally accepted benchmark for the design,
  construction, and operation of high performance
  green buildings
• The MEDDAC barracks are certified New Building
  Bronze with Green Cleaning and other programs,
  they can maintain this grade as an Existing
  Building

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Fort Carson Goal 9 Sustainable
Procurement Paper Policy Date 15 November
2009 Briefer Peter Gates
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Background

• Fort Carson recycled 118.5 tons of paper in FY06
  up 66 from FY04
• Most copier paper procured at 30 post consumer
  content
• Numerous paper usage products abound on the
  installation

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Paper Policy Reduction Goals

• Reduce Paper Consumption by 10 per year by 2010
  based upon FY06 levels.
• Identify 50 post consumer content as the paper
  criteria for paper procurement in new contracts
• Directorates will develop and document internal
  strategies to meet the previous goals

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Best Practices

• Increase employee to printer ratio
• Reuse printing and writing paper for drafts
• Encourage duplex
• Reduce paper towel usage
• Print slide briefs in 2,3,4 per page versus
  single slide format
• Encourage electronic means versus paper when
  applicable

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Next Steps

• Distribute Draft Policy and Decision Paper for
  review
• Gather input
• Present to Garrison Commander for signature of
  policy
• Distribute policy