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.

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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

CONTINUING EDUCATION CONTACT HOURS FOR ISM’S CPSM AND CPSD PROGRAMS AND  UPPCC’S CPPO AND CPPB PROGRAMS ARE OFFERED FOR ALL CONCURRENT SESSIONS. CONCURRENT SESSIONS QUALIFY FOR 1 CONTINUING EDUCATION CONTACT HOUR.