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| Seminars for a BRIGHT GREEN, BRIGHT FUTURE TM |
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| Our green purchasing seminars educate, inspire and actuate those involved with interior design, architecture, facilities management and corporate, governmental or institutional procurement. |
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| Deborah Dunning, President & CEO is a frequent speaker at conferences on green product design, certification and green purchasing and serves as a member of the Green Marketing Roundtable. Other members of The Green Standard staff and board are available to speak at trade shows, conferences, association meetings, and educational institutions. |
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| Distinguishing Green from Greenwashed Products |
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| With increasing numbers of consumers asking for green products, and more companies offering (or claiming to offer) eco-friendly wares, building designers and procurement professionals must respond with judiciousness. This session will review a range of certification programs, noting what they do and do not cover and what metrics they use to describe a product’s environmental attributes. Additionally, it will provide an understanding of Environmental Product Declarations and how they can be used potentially in combination with single and multiple attribute eco-labels as well as sustainable product standards. You will learn how to use these tools in specifying and purchasing products, thus integrating best practices globally in green purchasing. |
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| Green Purchasing Strategies to Reduce Risks and Costs |
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| Stakeholders of both private and public entities seek increasingly to know how well an organization is handling its procurement of a broad range of products and services. In many cases, they are demanding documentation of “sustainable procurement.” It is a strategy for purchasing that takes into account the economical, environmental and social justice impacts of purchasing choices. It looks at and measures the impacts of a product or service over its entire lifecycle, including: environmental quality, fair pay, human health, human rights, labor conditions and other issues. This session will address how best to incorporate green purchasing and sustainable procurement into an organization’s best practices so as to reduce liability risks, potentially reduce costs, and increase brand value with shareholders and stakeholders. |
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