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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 from this session.
The $100 Billion For-Benefit Procurement Pledge: Leveraging Corporate Purchasing Power to Advance the SDGs
Presenter: Rebecca Holliday, CARE
Achieving Impact and Savings with an Online Behavior Change Platform
Presenter: Fahmida Ahmed Bangert, Stanford University
Adding the 'S' in'P2P' -- Integrating supplier sustainability metrics into purchasing processes - where, when, how?
Presenter: Toby Simpson, EcoVadis
Biomimicry in Purchasing: What would procurement inspired by Nature look like?
Presenter: Mikhail Davis, Interface
Closing the Loop: How Office Furniture Remanufacturing Saves Money, Creates Jobs & Benefits the Environment
Presenter: Douglas Pilgrim, Davies Office and Michael Jones-Bey, Con Edison
Growing Implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Global Supply Chains
Presenter: Adam Gordon, Global Compact Network USA
How Big EU Buyers Are Incubating Circular IT
Presenter: Cuno Van Geet, Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, Netherlands and Joan Prummel, Strategic Advisor on Circular Procurement,Dutch Rijkswaterstaat
How Changes to LEED Are Accelerating Adoption of Sustainable Materials and the Circular Economy
Presenter: Jeff Frost, Brightworks Sustainability and Mary Ellen Mika, Steelcase.
How Trump's "Efficient Federal Operations" Executive Order 13834 Is Being Implemented Within Federal Purchasing
Presenter: Alison Kinn Bennett, EPA
Identifying Credible Ecolabels and Standards with SPLC’s SUSTAIN Program: Progress Update and Opportunity for Input
Presenters: Sarah O'Brien, SPLC and Anastasia O'Rourke, Industrial Economics Inc
Improved Tools for Quantifying the Savings & Environmental Benefits of Purchasing Sustainable IT Products
Presenters: Patricia Dillon, Green Electronics Council
The Increasing Importance of Supply Chain Sustainability in Investor and Lender Decision-making
Presenter: Trisha Taneja, Sustainalytics
Leveraging Procurement Data to Achieve Energy Savings and Improve Program Effectiveness in the Federal Sector
Presenters: Liyang Wang and Sravan Chalasani, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Opportunities for Procurement to Accelerate Clean Energy
Presenters: Gerald Robinson and Molly Morabito, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Re-thinking Packaging & Food Service Ware: Surprising Findings from Life Cycle Assessment Studies
Presenter: Jonathan Rivin, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Regional Procurement Coordination to Boost Local Green Economy
Presenter: Sarah Church, Alameda County GSA-Sustainability
Responsible Procurement: Metrics and mechanisms to set suppliers on a path of environmental performance to manage climate, water, and deforestation impacts
Presenter: George Hodge, CDP
Setting *Ambitious* Supply Chain Sustainability Goals: Trends & Best Practices
Presenters: Josh Nothwang and Kealy Herman, Energy and Climate Change, WSP
Specifying Limits on Carbon in Concrete: How to Reduce Concrete's Significant Carbon Footprint Upwards of 50%
Presenters: Karen Cook, County of Alameda and Chris Erickson, Climate Earth
The State-of-the-Art in Corporate Power Purchase Agreements
Presenter: Chip Wood, CRS
Supply Chain Transparency in Apparel Procurement
Presenter: Tim Dombeck, City of Austin
The Sustainable Coffee Challenge: How Procurement Can Help Coffee Become the World's First 100% Sustainable Commodity
Presenters: Stephen Schulman, Lacas Coffee; Parker Townley and Billy Linstead Goldsmith, Fair Trade USA
Tools and Metrics Used to Help Build a Best in Class Sustainability Program from the Ground Up
Presenter: Denise Curtis, AT&T
Using Predictive Risk to Support More Effective Management of Complex Supply Chain Labor and Environmental Issues
Presenter: Andrew Savini, ELEVATE
Using Procurement to Eliminate Unhealthy Persistent Chemicals from Food Service Ware
Presenter: Sue Chiang, Center for Environmental Health
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 twice. Read more here about what to expect from this session.
Building a Living Resource: Online Sustainable Purchasing Guides
Presenter: Karen Hamilton, King County, Washington
Buying Renewable Natural Gas: Successes & Lessons Learned
Presenter, David Phillips, University of California
The Business Case & Tools for Less and Better Paper Purchasing
Presenter: Anne Pernick, Environmental Paper Network North America
Buying Green Made Easy: Block the Bad Stuff
Presenters: Jessian Choy and Chris Geiger, San Francisco Department of the Environment
Cradle to Cradle: Verifying Products for the Circular Economy
Presenter: Marisa Guber, Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute and Del Hudson, Ellen MacArthur Foundation, USA Inc.
The Dutch Green Deal Approach: Learning Networks Accelerating Circular Procurement
Presenter: Joan Prummel, Dutch Rijkswaterstaat
The Elephant in the Room: Growing Consumption, Planetary Boundaries, and the Urgency of Re-thinking Purchasing
Presenter: Eliot Metzger, World Resources Institute and Minal Mistry, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
Emerging Trends in How Countries Are Measuring the Impacts of Sustainable Purchasing
Presenters: Farid Yaker, UN Environment and Aure Adell, Ecoinstitut SCCL
Environmental Defense Fund's New Online Supply Chain Solutions Center
Presenter: Matt Lyon, Environmental Defense Fund
The Growing Importance of Type 1 Ecolabels
Presenter: Bjorn-Erik Lonn, Global Ecolabelling Network
How Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) Can Accelerate Environmentally Preferable Purchasing: Lessons from Healthcare
Presenters: Cristina Indiveri and Mellissa Nguyen, Vizient
How Smart Procurement Can Curb Local Air Pollution from Construction-related Diesel Emissions
Presenter: Stacey Foreman, City of Portland, Oregon
How to Mobilize and Steward a Sustainable Procurement Advocate Network in Your Company
Presenters: Lauren Zimmerman and Liana Alvarez, ExxonMobil
Innovative Life Cycle Asset Management: Eliminating the Waste of Money & Resources with RFID
Presenter: Nadine Cino, TygaTrax
Institutionalizing Sustainability within an E-procurement Platform
Presenters: Barry Zimmerman, Shawn Postera, and Lee Fleming, Multnomah County
New Initiatives for Eliminating Worker Exposure to Toxic Chemicals in the Electronics Supply Chain
Presenter: Clare Hobby, TCO Development
Reuse, Recycling, and the Circular Economy: Ways to Incorporate Reuse and Recycle Best Practices into Your Organization
Presenter: Tim Farrow, Apto Solutions
Sustainable Procurement of Printing Supplies: 10 Guidelines
Presenter: Shelley Zimmer, HP Inc.
Saving Jobs and Lives: Sustainable Purchasing that Includes Workers
Presenters: Lauren Asplen, BlueGreen Alliance
Social & Human Capital: A New Protocol for Measuring & Demonstrating the Impact of Companies
Presenter: Mike Wallace, Social & Human Capital Coalition