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| Great Lakes Green Purchasing Consortium: Leveraging Purchasing Power to Improve Environmental Quality |
| Status: |
Completed |
| Grantee: |
Delta Institute |
| Grant Amount: |
$495,000 |
| Award Date: |
June 13, 2008 |
| Contact: |
Abigail Corso |
| Phone: |
312-554-0900 |
| E-mail: |
acorso@delta-institute.org |
| Category: |
Market Mechanisms for Environmental Improvement |
| Origination: |
General Guidelines |
The goal of this project is to create a network of environmentally preferable purchasing consortiums across the basin. The project team will work with purchasing groups in Chicago, West Michigan and either Milwaukee, WI, Cleveland, OH or a similarly representative Great Lakes city over the course of three years. This effort will build upon the success the team has had with purchasing representatives in Grand Rapids, MI under a previous Fund grant. It will scale the purchasing consortium model to other cities, establish a self-sustaining business model, and create an interactive web interface that allows purchasers in different parts of the basin to provide feedback on the attributes of environmentally preferable purchases. Based on the types of products it hopes to promote, the project team believes that this project will lead to cleaner effluent streams at the point of discharge and reduced water use by basin facilities. |
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