Climate Change
Scorecard Element 10:
Sustainable Operations
Leslie Brandt
Katie Newcomb
Lara Polansky
February 16, 2011
Scorecard Overview
• Ensure a balanced approach to integrating climate change
considerations into our programs and initiatives
• Each National Forest and Grassland will measure its progress over
the next five years (FY 2010 – FY 2015) by:
•Answering “yes” or “no” to the 10 questions on an annual basis
• Providing a narrative describing accomplishments and/or plans
for improvement
•Scorecard responses will help us:
•Identify our current strengths
• Identify areas for greater investment
•Help us inform the Department, Congress, and the public about
our progress in responding to climate change
Scorecard Organization
Element 10: Sustainable Operations
• Climate Change Strategic Framework (2008)
Goal 5 under the Forest Service Strategic Framework For
Responding to Climate Change is “Sustainable Operations Reduce the environmental footprint of Forest Service
operations and be a leading example of a green
organization.”
•Climate Change Roadmap (2010)
•Ongoing actions: “Reducing the Forest Service’s environmental
footprint”
•Executive Order 13514
•Part of our Mission
It’s all connected…
Office
Campground
Well
Slide Credit: Sarah Baker, Environmental Engineer, R3 RO
6 Environmental Footprint Areas
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Energy
Water
Waste Reduction / Recycling
Fleet / Transportation
Green Purchasing
Sustainability Leadership
Tips for Getting to “Yes” on Element 10
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Ask Questions: If you have a questions regarding the
feasibility of an action item, or would like to request the
addition of a new action item, submit your request with
rationale to the Element 10 Review Team in an email with
the subject line of “Climate Change Scorecard” to
National_Sustainable_Operations@fs.fed.us
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Collaborate with Unit Climate Change Coordinators: As
the “green” champions at your respective Units, your
Sustainable Operations knowledge will be invaluable for
your Unit Coordinator. Be prepared to answer questions
about work that has been completed (FY 2010
Preliminary Assessment) and to devise a strategy to
accomplish action items (FY 2011 – FY 2015 Reports)
Tips for Getting to “Yes” on Element 10
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Items may include work completed to date, as
long as that work is still applicable and being
implemented on the Unit.
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Some items have multiple completion boxes and
may be counted multiple times.
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Some items have two-part questions. Both parts
need to be completed to count as a “Yes”
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Items that require annual action may only be
counted toward the cumulative total if they are
being completed each year.
Energy
Example Actions
Tools
Does your Unit hold energy awareness activities
annually and share energy savings opportunities with
employees?
•http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/documen
ts/Top10%20FreeThingsYouCanDoToReduceEnergyCost
s.pdf
•http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/documen
ts/TopTenCheapThingsYouCanDoToReduceEnergyCosts.
pdf
Has the initial Utility Bill Clean Up been completed and
has your Unit identified the top 20% of facilities with
highest energy use?
Has your Unit conducted energy audits on 20% of all
climate-controlled facilities?
Has your Unit implemented at least two energy-efficient
technologies within at least 75% of all buildings?
• Vending misers
• Compact fluorescent light bulbs
• Office lights with motion sensors
• Life-cycle cost analysis
http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/focusarea-energy.shtml#utility
http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=evaluate_perf
ormance.bus_portfoliomanager
•http://www.vendingmiserstore.com/
•http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=find
_a_product.showProductGroup&pgw_code=LB
Water
Example Actions
Does your Unit use environmentally-friendly
landscaping around all main offices (e.g. xeriscaping
or rain gardens)?
http://www.epa.gov/
Tools
http://www.epa.gov/greenkit/landscap.htm
Has your Unit conducted water audits on 20% of waterusing facilities (both metered and unmetered)?
Does your Unit conduct water awareness activities
annually and share the “Water Conservation Habits”
with employees?
http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/document
s/waterconservationhabits.rtf
Waste Reduction/Recycling
Example Actions
Tools
Has your unit set all printers and copiers to default to
double-sided printing?
http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/document
s/savepaper.pdf
Does your unit recycle electronic waste?
Does your unit recycle or salvage at least 50% of
construction waste?
Does your Unit have an incident recycling guide? Is it
being used for incidents?
Does your Unit recycle at least three different materials
(e.g., paper, plastic, aluminum, tin, glass, cardboard) on
a regular basis?
Link to Lighten Your Load Video:
http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/media#yo
utube
Fleet/Transportation
Example Actions
Has your Unit shared eco-driving tips with volunteers,
seasonal and new employees on an annual basis?
Does your unit participate in transit and bike subsidy
programs?
Has your Unit computed the fuel economy for each
vehicle and posted this information for pool vehicles?
When purchasing a vehicle, does your Unit fleet
manager consider GHG emissions and costs? Do you use
FLEET or other life cycle cost methods as part of your
purchasing decisions?
Tools
http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/document
s/TheEcoDriversManual.pdf
http://fsweb.wo.fs.fed.us/aqm/property/commutertransit/
www.fueleconomy.gov
http://fleet.dv.r5.fs.fed.us:8080/fleet/
Does your Unit check and correct tire pressure during
required monthly inspections?
Lenise Lago
DRF R6
Green Purchasing
Example Actions
Has your Unit identified 3 new replacement products
that are being purchased now for which a green
product could be acquired? Has your Unit started
purchasing these items?
Has your unit moved from 30% post-consumer recycled
content paper to 100% post-consumer recycled content
paper?
Has every employee who identifies purchasing needs,
makes procurement requests or is a micropurchaser
taken green purchasing training?
Have you included green contract/procurement
language in all of your acquisition orders/contracts
when appropriate?
Tools
EPA Environmentally Preferable Purchases (EPP)
http://www.epa.gov/opptintr/epp/index.htm;
OFFE Green Products Compilation:
http://www.fedcenter.gov/Documents/index.cfm?id=11767&pg
e_prg_id=26960
USDA Biopreferred Product Compilation:
http://www.dm.usda.gov/procurement/programs/biopreferred.
htm
Responsible Purchasing www.ResponsiblePurchasing.org
•http://www.responsiblepurchasing.org/publications/09-11-04RPN_Paper_Standards_Comparison_Chart.pdf
• AGlearn: Log into AGlearn (http://www.aglearn.usda.gov/)
then search on “Green Purchasing”
• Importance of Properly Coding BOCs:
http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/documents/budgetobjective-classification-codes-fact-sheet.pdf
• Western Collective-sponsored green purchasing training
webinars
http://www.fedcenter.gov/programs/buygreen/
(scroll down to the contract/procurement language subheading)
Sustainability Leadership
Example Actions
Does your Unit have a cross-discipline green team
that is meeting at least quarterly? Has a multi-year
action plan been developed that is supported by Unit
leadership?
Tools
Green Team Toolkit:
http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/greentea
m-toolkit/how-to-start.shtml
Does your green team have resources to implement at
least part of its multi-year approved action plan?
Is this multi-year action plan shared annually with all
employees on your Unit?
Does your unit have an annual sustainable operations
award and/or recognition program for employees and
partners?
Is time provided to employees to participate in key
sustainable operations activities on the unit and the
community?
Are sustainable operations practices included as an
annual topic at seasonal and new employee orientation
on your unit?
http://wms7.streamhoster.com/vlecd/Whats Your
Excuse.HQ.wmv
The 7th Footprint = F-U-N
Deer River RD, Chippewa NF, R9
• Saved 73,000 gal of water in
one year by replacing 7
toilets
• Increased their energy
efficiency by 35% and saved
the same amount of CO2
emissions from the electricity
used as 5.2 homes use in one
year
• Saved the same amount
of gas as 6.5 people not
driving any vehicle for an
entire year, by reducing
the number of fleet
vehicles and minimizing
the overall purchase of fuel
• Saved 24 trees from
being cut by changing to
100% recycled content and
duplex printing
http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/extreme-makeover/index.shtml
LISO Connection
• What is LISO? Leadership in Sustainable Operations
• Motivational method
• Tracking system
• Leadership tool
• Educational awareness
• How will it work?
• Unit self-reports progress
• Focus on implementable and doable actions.
• Green Teams could serve as cheerleader and gauge progress
• Climate Change Scorecard Connection
• Included in self-reporting tool
• Automatically generate report for Element 10
Automatically populates
regularly via Forest
Service data systems
How to
connect?
FS Unit enters info
once a year
(or more, if desired)
LISO PORTAL SCREEN
Anyone can upload
info and share
stories at any time.
Climate Change
Scorecard
connection here
Questions?
Bringing it All Together –
Our Environmental Footprint and the Climate
Change Connection
• Gifford “insisted that conservation must be
reinvigorated, revived, renamed, revitalized
by each successive generation, its
implications, its urgencies, its logistics and
translated in terms of the present of each of
them”.
- Cornelia Pinchot
Informational Resources
FEMP Designated:
• http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/technologies/procuring_eeprodu
cts.html
ENERGY STAR:
• http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=bulk_purchasing.bus_purc
hasing
EPEAT:
• http://www.epeat.net
Energy Information Administration:
• http://eia.doe.gov (independent statistics & analysis)
Office of the Federal Environmental Executive:
• http://ofee.gov
Training Resources
DOE/FEMP Training:
• http://www1.eere.energy.gov/femp/services/training.html
GovEnergy 2010:
• http://www.govenergy.gov/
The International Institute for Sustainable Labs:
• http://www.labs21century.gov/conf/index.htm
Certified Energy Manager Certification:
• http://www.aeecenter.org/i4a/pages/index.cfm?pageid=1
U.S. Green Building Council: http://www.usgbc.org
ENERGY STAR Training:
• http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=business.bus_internet_present
ations
FS Additional Resources
R5/PSW Environmental Footprint Report:
• http://fsweb.psw.fs.fed.us/Sust_OpsEnv_Ftprnt_in_the_FS_Pac_SW_Dec_06.pdf
R5/PSW Sustainable Operations Survey:
• http://www.fs.fed.us/psw/publications/documents/psw_misc8083.pdf
PSW Region Sustainable Operations Wiki:
• http://fswiki.wo.fs.fed.us/fswiki/sandbox/index.php/Sustainable_Operations
_in_the_Forest_Service_Pacific_Southwest
Sustainable Operations Western Collective:
• http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/western-collective.shtml
National Sustainable Operations Website:
• http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/index.shtml
R5 RO Green Team Intranet Site:
• http://fsweb.r5.fs.fed.us/program/green/