Top 10 Shopping
List for Sustainable Purchasing
A simple checklist outlining how to integrate social and environmental considerations
into top 10 product and service areas.
Published 2008
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the Shopping List from the Sustainability Purchaisng Network (1.71
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10 Ways to
Start or Enhance your Sustainability Purchasing Strategy
Sustainability Purchasing can be as simple as choosing office products
with recognized green certifications, buying from local suppliers
or leasing equipment for temporary needs instead of buying it.
Published 2008
10
Ways to Start or Enhance your Sustainability Purchasing Strategy (169 kb
PDF)
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HBC Ethical
Sourcing Case Study
HBC established the foundation for their ethical sourcing program
in 1998, when they established a Code of Vendor Conduct (CVC). Their
program has evolved since then into a broader Social Compliance Program
(SCP), which was formalized in 2001, containing the CVC and a monitoring
and remediation process, the overall goals of which are to improve
factory conditions, educate buyers and share industry knowledge.
Published 2007
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HBC Ethical Sourcing Case Study (178 kb PDF)
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Catalyst Paper
Sustainable Supply Chains Case Study
As a significant purchaser of BC forest fibre, Catalyst focuses
most of their sustainability purchasing efforts on fibre sourcing,
to ensure that their suppliers meet the company’s environmental
standards.
Published 2008
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Catalyst Paper Sustainable Supply Chains Case Study (91 kb PDF)
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Reducing Supply
Chain Carbon - DRAFT
The following backgrounder was compiled by the Sustainability
Purchasing Network (www.buysmartbc.com)
and is to be used to provide a context for why and how an organization
would consider responsibly managing the carbon in its supply
chain. It provides a definition and a business case and
includes 8 case studies (3 UK, 1 US, 1 Denmark and 3 Canadian)
providing examples of how firms and governments are reducing
their supply chain carbon.
Published 2008
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Reducing Supply Chain Carbon - DRAFT (100 kb PDF)
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Sustainability
Purchasing Trends and Drivers By Coro Strandberg and
Amy Robinson
This paper documents the trends and drivers for sustainability
purchasing, including green, ethical and social purchasing, globally
and in Canada, and considers multi-lateral and regulatory developments
that are advancing sustainability in the marketplace. Two
case studies of firms integrating ethical and environmental performance
standards in their procurement programs are provided as examples
of sustainable purchasing in practice.
Published 2007. Revised 2008.
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Sustainability Purchasing Trends and Drivers (755 kb
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Guide
to the Business Case for Sustainable Purchasing By Coro
Strandberg and Amy Robinson.
Published 2007
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Guide to the Business Case for Sustainable Purchasing (626 kb
PDF)
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Sustainable
Purchasing Survey A survey of information, training,
and collaboration needs and priorities of sustainable purchasers
in Greater Vancouver.
Published 2006
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the Sustainable Purchasing Survey (268 kb
PDF)
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Sustainability
Purchasing Initiative: A Study Assessing Interest in a Sustainability
Purchasing Network to Grow Sustainability Purchasing in the Greater Vancouver Regional District
By C. Easton and Associates, Tim Reeve and Associates and Strandberg
Consulting.
Published 2005
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Sustainability Purchasing Initiative (236 kb PDF)
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