buyers: NEW TRAINING: Green Purchasing

[Lynne Harrell]

Hello UO Buyers,

Many of you have asked for support GREENING your workplaces.  This Spring the UO Office of Sustainability is offering a new course on "Sustainable Purchasing" to help.  Course information is summarized below with more information contained in the attached flyers.   To register, send an email to Steve Mital, UO Sustainability Director, at smital at uoregon.edu<mailto:smital at uoregon.edu>.



SUSTAINABLE PURCHASING
Through lectures, discussions, and short assignments, this workshop will help office managers understand the key concepts of green purchasing. The course content includes environmental & social impacts of consumption, interpreting eco-labels, using life-cycle assessment, triple-bottom-line decision making, and a follow-up lunch to review a take-home assignment.  (Course Dates: May 1  8:30 - Noon and May 8 Noon - 1:30.  Cost $30 includes lunch on day two.)



Steve Mital
UO Sustainability Director
smital at uoregon.edu<mailto:smital at uoregon.edu>
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