How Does Sustainability Fit with Other Environmental Initiatives?

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How Does Sustainability Fit with Other
Environmental Initiatives?
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Overview

• The Pieces
• EMS and Sustainability
• P2 and Sustainability
• Compliance and Sustainability
• Conservation and Sustainability
• Restoration and Sustainability
• Resource Use and Sustainability

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The Pieces
Goals
Tools
Vehicle (EMS)
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EMS
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EMS and Sustainability
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P2 and Sustainability

• P2 is a goal that promotes efficient use of
  materials in ways that eliminate or reduce wastes
  within a process or series of processes
• Sustainability expands the evaluation to include
  the entire lifecycle of use as well as related
  systems, activities, and regional considerations.

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Compliance and Sustainability

• Sustainability focuses on accomplishing the
  intent of the compliance requirements
• From control of point source emissions to
  protection/improvement of regional air- and
  watersheds
• From waste management to materials and products
  purchase/lease, use, and disposition management
• From tracking and reporting of data to evaluation
  with an eye toward mission impact, quality of
  life, and sustainability
• Simulation of natural systems to meet
  environmental quality standards

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Conservation and Sustainability

• Sustainability and conservation go hand-in-hand
  as they always have. New challenges might
  include
• Even more innovative land management techniques
  to preserve habitats while also enhancing mission
• Participation in resolving encroachment issues
  around ranges

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Restoration and Sustainability

• Remediation focused not only on meeting
  concentrations of residual contamination but also
  considering
• Future uses of lands and areas
• Improvement of environmental quality and habitats
• Use of natural systems to address current and
  potential contamination

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Resource Use and Sustainability

• Environmental programs must continue to influence
  the purchase and use of stuff, energy, water, and
  air to encourage sustainability
• Whats in it?
• Is it efficient?
• Is it renewable?
• Where is it manufactured?
• How does it impact the environment?
• How will we get rid of it when were through?
• Does it impact the mission through environmental
  impacts?

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Wrap Up

• Sustainability
• Ties our programs together by seeking solutions
  that resolve multiple related issues that may be
  regulated under various regulations
• Provides us overarching goals and solutions that
  must be solved by various components (not just
  environmental)
• Seeks to integrate environmental issues, as
  appropriate, into the mission and its related
  activities