Karen Cook
Sustainability Project Manager, County of Alameda
Karen Cook has led Alameda County, California’s green purchasing program for the last decade, greening tens of millions of dollars of bids for this 9500-employee organization. Karen works to accelerate market transformation by collaborating locally, regionally and nationally on green purchasing efforts. Prior to that she spent nearly a decade advancing green building operations, waste reduction, and recycling for local government and in the private sector.
My Sessions
Impact Prioritization on a Budget: How Procurement Can Leverage Others’ Learnings and Approaches
Galleria NorthKaren Cook
Adam Rubinfield
Yalmaz Siddiqui
Kris Spriano
Understanding the environmental, social and economic impacts of your organization’s procurement is critically important for strategically targeting your sustainable purchasing efforts. Yet, conducting rigorous impact analysis of an organization’s spending and suppliers can often be difficult, discouraging organizations from getting accurate prioritization insights. The good news is that organizations around the world have embraced transparency … read more >>
Fahmida Ahmed Bangert
Sravan Chalasani
Sue Chiang
Sarah Church
Karen Cook
Denise Curtis
Mikhail Davis
Patricia Dillon
Tim Dombeck
Chris Erickson
Jeff Frost
Claire Kells
Kealy Herman
George Hodge
Rebecca Holliday
Alison Kinn Bennett
Billy Linstead Goldsmith
Michael Jones-Bey
Mary Ellen Mika
Molly Morabito
Josh Nothwang
Anastasia O’Rourke
Sarah O’Brien
Douglas Pilgrim
Joan Prummel
Jonathan Rivin
Gerald Robinson
Andrew Savini
Stephen Schulman
Toby Simpson
Parker Townley
Trisha Taneja
Cuno Van Geet
Liyang Wang
Chip Wood
This session is for innovative projects that are ready to be LAUNCHED, JOINED, EXPANDED, or REPLICATED! Presenters give an overview of new and innovative projects that advance sustainable purchasing. Attendees claim a seat at a roundtable with a topic of interest to them. Topics are repeated three times. Read more here about what to expect … read more >>