Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability/NW
In association with the
National Association of Purchasing Managers - Western Washington

presents an intensive one-day workshop - See the Brochure - Registration form - Payment

Sustainable Purchasing Strategies
Using the Natural Step Framework

Thursday, May 1, 2003
Jackson Federal Building - Seattle

Every organization has an opportunity to move toward sustainable practices by assessing and redesigning its purchasing policy. In this one-day workshop, buyers will learn how to move beyond the familiar purchasing decision-making model of price, quality and delivery and begin to develop a buying process and vendor selection criteria that are aligned with sustainability and The Natural Step (TNS) principles.

Featured Speaker: Scot Case, Director of Procurement Strategies, Center for a New American Dream. Author of numerous case studies, newsletters, fact sheets, articles, and brochures for EPA, including Private Sector Pioneers--How Companies are Incorporating Environmentally Preferable Purchasing -- a 40-page case study documenting the environmental purchasing efforts of 18 well-known business organizations, and State and Local Government Pioneers -- a case study covering the environmental purchasing work of more than forty state and local governments

Case Study Presenters

Public Sector

• Richard Gelb & Ulla Johnson
  City of Seattle, Office of Sustainability and Environment

Private Sector

• Dennis Macray
  Manager of Business Practices, Corporate Social Responsibility, Starbucks Coffee Company
• Jill R. Larson, C.P.M., A.P.P.
  Buyer, Purchasing Department, Puget Sound Energy

Additional program details and registrations forms are available on the Sustainable Purchasing Strategies workshop brochure

TUITION:
NBIS/NW and NAPM-WW Members: $225; Non-Members: $250

To pay now with credit card, click here:
NBIS/NW or NAPM-WW member Registration and Payment	Non-Member Registration and Payment

Group Discounts: Contact us regarding group discounts.
Tuition includes Program Binder, lunch and beverages.

REGISTRATION: Please fill out and return the registration form on the workshop brochure or click here for online registration form. Make checks payable to NBIS/NW. For further information contact the Network at 206-296-2469. (Fax #: 425-828-8977)

Network for Business Innovation and Sustainability/NW
Albers School of Business and Economics
Seattle University, 900 Broadway, Seattle, WA 98122