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Building Sustainability in Your Community. Lynn France lfrance@chulavistaca.gov. CLIMATE PROTECTIONS MEASURES. Strategy #11 Green Economy Modify the City’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Policy.
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Building Sustainability in Your Community Lynn France lfrance@chulavistaca.gov
Strategy #11 Green Economy • Modify the City’s Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Policy. • Revise existing business outreach programs to address recommendations to reduce climate change risks. • Continue to pursue the recruitment and retention of ‘green’/clean businesses and ‘green manufacturing.
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Policy Total Cost of Ownership – means a summary of all purchase, operating and related costs for a product or service, including the acquisition, transportation, receiving, inspection, training, maintenance, operating, energy use and disposal costs.
World Resource Institute article “Sixty Corporations Begin Measuring Emissions from Products and Supply Chains” www.wri.org