EcoPurchasing

Date: Aug 21, 2008
Time: 8:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Location: MARC Conference Center (map)
Fee: $25, includes lunch

What you'll learn:

This workshop will include a 1.5-hour web presentation co-sponsored by EPA Region 7 and MARC Solid Waste Management District followed by a panel discussion.

Every purchase we make has an environmental impact – with each purchase we are either contributing to or helping prevent the environmental problems currently plaguing the planet. Many local governments are examining their operational practices in an effort to become a more sustainable organization. A key component of sustainability is eco-purchasing, which incorporates environmental, cost, availability and performance concerns along with social and health considerations.

This workshop will help you discover how to:

  1. launch an EcoPurchasing Program
  2. take short cuts to identify eco products
  3. find suppliers
  4. change your customers' purchasing habits
  5. push prices down and calculate in the life cycle costs of products
  6. solve problems
  7. measure and reward success

This workshop is brought to you by the Mid-America Regional Council Solid Waste Management District, the United States Green Building Council and the Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7. Partial funding also provided by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources.

Instructor:

Sandra Cannon is head of EcoPurchasing Consultants, author of The Competitive Advantage:  EcoPurchasing, technical support for the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Program, and recipient of several White House Closing the Circle awards for green purchasing.

Prior to FY2007, Ms. Cannon worked for Battelle (operator of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory--PNNL). In this role, Ms. Cannon was responsible for helping PNNL as well as other DOE sites work their way through obstacles to transition to more environmental products.

Registration:

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