Environmental Procurement Process
Getting the environment into business

Environmental procurement, or green purchasing as it's also known, emerged in the late 1970s when purchasing professionals became aware of the consequences of their actions.  Even though their innovations often met with strong resistance, they made it easy for people to change their minds by introducing carefully thought out ideas. Many of these early initiates are today's green purchasing entrepreneurs. 

Effective environmental procurement processes allow a new business culture to emerge.  Our economy and the planet's ecology are reaching a crisis point, which marks the end of the line for an obsolete thought system that assumes nature is a low cost, limitless and exploitable resource.

The question is: will the business world let go of old thinking in time to allow new thinking to take hold?

This is the reason why, at Green Purchasing, we prefer to work with cultural entrepreneurs.  Like earlier initiates they realise that only fundamental change will last.  Their motives are not necessarily 'green' or altruistic but they do see what the future holds if business does not change.  They also see the futility of fighting long-lost resource and price wars .  They are motivated by profit and return on investment, but not at any cost. 

Green Purchasing consulting, project management and training services assist you to:

• reduce high risk sourcing and resource dependence,
• develop green products and processes,
• raise the bar on sustainability targets,
• eliminate waste, pollution and toxicity,
• lobby for tough climate change legislation,
• initiate green supply webs,
• create an eco-culture mindset.

To find out how we can help, please contact Maria Straub on:

Email: maria@greenpurchasing.com.au    Mobile: +61 (0)416 172 550    Skype: green_purchasing