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Introduction to Sustainable Procurement and a Strategic Program Approach
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
Become familiar with the basic definition and common approaches to purchasing more sustainable goods and services in your organization. Learn what it means to take a strategic program approach, begin ...
- Posted Feb. 21, 2024
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Supplier Diversification program: Increasing procurement spending with diverse businesses
- Seattle University (WA)
Seattle University wants to lead a paradigm shift in how local, large institutions do business. The university specifically intends to address the gap between businesses in the local Black community ...
- Posted May 31, 2023
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Understanding your University's Emissions from Purchasing and Investments (Scope 3)
- Arizona State University (AZ)
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
- Persefoni (AZ)
This session will focus on providing universities information on understanding their own Scope 3 as it relates to their purchasing practices and supply chains. The panel will feature ASU to ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Student-Led Initiatives Increasing Sustainable Purchasing
- Butler University (IN)
- University of Oregon (OR)
The combined purchasing power of colleges and universities is staggering, touching on everything from pens to consultants to multi-million dollar buildings. Because of this consumer power, colleges and universities can ...
- Posted May 17, 2023
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Expanding Sustainability: Using Food Procurement to Help Poultry Workers (through a new consortium)
- Georgetown University (DC)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- University of Michigan (MI)
Many colleges and universities are working on sustainable procurement goals, but how many of us have looked at social sustainability and the impact of our procurement on workers? During the ...
- Posted Jan. 21, 2022
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Leveraging the Buying Power of Universities for Sustainable Procurement and Market Transformation
- Boston University (MA)
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MA)
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
College campuses are seeking to use purchasing power to drive sustainability goals, yet lack the leverage, as single institutions, to shift supplier behaviors. This session will begin with the compelling ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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Who Made Your T-Shirt & Why Should You Care? What You Need to Know About University Ethical Sourcing
- Sumerra (OR)
You wear the same mascot-clad t-shirt to every home football game. It's a valuable good luck charm, but what value did the factory worker who made your t-shirt get ...
- Posted Nov. 15, 2021
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COVID-19 and Sustainability Resources
- Princeton University (NJ)
The Office of Sustainability has compiled this list of resources to support Princeton University students, faculty and staff as they navigate challenges related to sustainability and COVID-19 at this moment ...
- Posted Sept. 11, 2020
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Doing Good While Doing Your Job – Moving Toward a Circular Economy (during this time of Coronavirus)
- Stony Brook University (NY)
- AASHE (MA)
- Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (DC)
- Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (MA)
- Ellen MacArthur Foundation
Brought to you by the Higher Education Associations Sustainability Consortium (HEASC) and its members – a network of higher education associations with a commitment to advancing sustainability within their constituencies and ...
- Posted May 28, 2020
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Sustainability and procurement practices in higher education institutions: Barriers and drivers
- Hamburg University of Applied Sciences
- University of Passo Fundo
- Manchester Metropolitan University
- Universidade federal de Santa Maria
- University of Winchester
- University of the Aegean (Lesvos)
A review of the literature reveals the scant research on sustainable procurement in the public sector, and in particular higher education institutions (HEIs). In this context, this paper aims to ...
- Posted May 13, 2020
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Sustainable Procurement: Considerations and Best Practices
- Global Electronics Council (OR)
Strategic sustainable purchasing programs allow institutional purchasers, and colleges and universities in particular to advance the sustainable design of products and services they purchase while realizing environmental savings for their ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Sustainable Procurement in Laboratories: It's Time to Act
- My Green Lab (CA)
Recent years have seen an increased focus on sustainable procurement across a multitude of industries. Yet with little information or sustainability standards for laboratory products, it has been challenging for ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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Purchasing With Your Values
- Bow Valley College (AB)
Public institutions have to be conscious stewards of public funds when making purchasing decisions. Passing Sustainable Purchasing Policies or Procedures can help empower employees of schools to be creative and ...
- Posted Dec. 4, 2019
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UC Sustainable Procurement Program and Policy Overhaul
- University of California, Office of the President (CA)
Purchasing departments, such as those of the University of California campuses, have embraced the responsibility and opportunity to leverage their purchasing power as a force for good. But assessing and ...
- Posted May 20, 2019
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