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Hold a Mirror Up to Nature

• Greening
• Your Organization Through
• Green Purchasing Actions
• Georgiana Ball Va. Dept. of General Services
• VAGP Spring Conference 2009
• Staunton, Virginia

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Sustainability/ Greening your Organization

• Suit the action to the word,
• the word to the action
• Hamlet

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Overview

• What is Green Procurement
• Government Policy Initiatives
• Examples of Products Services
• Strategies
• Resources

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Going Green Is a Process..
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• What is Green Procurement or Environmentally
  Preferable Purchasing (EPP)?

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Definition of Green Procurement (EPP)

• Products and services
• that have a lesser or reduced effect
• on human health and the
• environment when compared with
• competing products or services
• that serve the same purpose.
• and.

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Definition of Green Procurement (EPP)

• This comparison may consider
• raw materials acquisition
• production manufacturing,
• packaging distribution
• reuse
• operation maintenance
• disposal of the product or service.
• From Federal Executive Order 13101, Greening the
  Government, September 16, 1998.

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Another way of looking at EPP types of
attributes

• Product-specific attributes
• Process-specific attributes
• Manufacturer-specific attributes

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Product-Specific Attributes

• Recycled Content
• Energy Water Efficiency
• Bio-based
• Low toxicity
• Durability

• Made from Renewable
• Resources
• Packaging
• Upgradeable

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Process-Specific Attributes

• Transportation
• -Amount Type of Fuel used
• -Type of Vehicle
• -Pollution
• Origin Local, U.S., Import?

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Manufacturer-Specific Attributes

• Lack of environmental violations
• Credible Environmental Management System
• Public environmental/social reporting
• procedures
• Mechanism for engaging stakeholders

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Growing Emphasis on Green

• Greater environmental impact emphasis related to
  procurement
• Stewardship role of institutions
• Procurement policies / directives

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Growing Emphasis on Green

• What is our Environmental Footprint?
• --Measuring impacts--
• Use of Resources Energy
• Pollution generated
• Climate Change, Toxics,
• Air, Water and Soil Quality

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Public Sector Policy Initiatives

• Governors Executive Orders
• Governors Management Objectives
• Code of Virginia
• APSPM
• Agency Environmental Policies
• Environmental Management Systems

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Challenges

• New products and technologies
• How to measure impacts
• Greenwashing
• How to integrate into procurement

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Products Services

• News Flash!!!!!
• NIGP Codes will begin to recognize green product
  categories
• First group 436, 486, and 631
• (they relate to their counterparts
• 435, 485 and 630)

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Products Services

• NIGP Green Codes
• 436 Germicides, Cleaners for health care
• personnel
• 486 Janitorial supplies, general line
• 631 Paint, protective coatings, varnish,
  wallpaper
• Environmentally certified by an agency accepted
  
• certification entity

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Products and Services

• Use 3rd Party Certification to simplify process
  of product validation
• Green Seal
• ePeat
• Eco-logo
• Forest Stewardship Council
• Energy-Star Compliant

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Product Service Areas

• Office Supplies and Equipment
• Paper and Printing
• Carpeting
• Roofing Materials
• Traffic Control Equipment
• Vehicles and Fuels
• Lighting

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Product Service Areas

• Paints
• Pesticides
• Energy Star Appliances Equipment
• Compostable Materials
• Cleaning Services
• Energy Management
• Vehicle Maintenance

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Strategies

• Identify areas of focus
• Do a little research
• Set goals or targets
• Discuss efforts with users

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Strategies

• Discuss interest with vendors
• Consider using Best Value
• procurement method
• Write good specs
• Include section on environmental attributes as
  part of your standard contract language

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Resources

• Govpro.com good articles on a variety of
• green products as well as case studies
• Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
• EPP, Recycled-Content Products, ePeat,
• WaterSense www.epa.gov
• Energy Star www.energy.govDOE
• Federal Energy Mgmt Program (FEMP)

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Resources, continued

• Office of the Federal Environmental
• Executive www.ofee.gov -
• spreadsheet for product categories
  content info
• Federal Trade Commission
• Environmental Marketing Guidelines
• DOEs Alternative Fuels and Advanced Vehicles
  Data Center
• www.biopreferred.gov/DesignationItemLis
  t.aspx

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Sustainability and Green Procurement Landscape

• A value-added component of products and services
  used
• New product and service offerings will develop
• Will increase in scope and depth
• Watch out for greenwashing and
• make it clear it is unacceptable