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

CampgroundWell

Office

It’s all connected…

Slide Credit: Sarah Baker, Environmental Engineer, R3 RO

6 Environmental Footprint Areas

• Energy• Water• Waste Reduction / Recycling• Fleet / Transportation• Green Purchasing• Sustainability Leadership

Tips for Getting to “Yes” on Element 10

• 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

• 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

• Items may include work completed to date, as long as that work is still applicable and being implemented on the Unit.

• Some items have multiple completion boxes and may be counted multiple times.

• Some items have two-part questions. Both parts need to be completed to count as a “Yes”

• Items that require annual action may only be counted toward the cumulative total if they are being completed each year.

EnergyExample Actions Tools

Does your Unit hold energy awareness activities annually and share energy savings opportunities with employees?

•http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/documents/Top10%20FreeThingsYouCanDoToReduceEnergyCosts.pdf

•http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/documents/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?

http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/focus-area-energy.shtml#utility

Has your Unit conducted energy audits on 20% of all climate-controlled facilities?

http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?c=evaluate_performance.bus_portfoliomanager 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.vendingmiserstore.com/•http://www.energystar.gov/index.cfm?fuseaction=find_a_product.showProductGroup&pgw_code=LB

WaterExample Actions Tools

Does your Unit use environmentally-friendly landscaping around all main offices (e.g. xeriscaping or rain gardens)? http://www.epa.gov/

http://www.epa.gov/greenkit/landscap.htm

Has your Unit conducted water audits on 20% of water-using 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/documents/waterconservationhabits.rtf

Waste Reduction/RecyclingExample Actions Tools

Has your unit set all printers and copiers to default to double-sided printing?

http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/documents/savepaper.pdf

Does your unit recycle electronic waste?Link to Lighten Your Load Video: http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/media#youtube 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?

Fleet/TransportationExample Actions Tools

Has your Unit shared eco-driving tips with volunteers, seasonal and new employees on an annual basis?

http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/documents/TheEcoDriversManual.pdf

Does your unit participate in transit and bike subsidy programs?

http://fsweb.wo.fs.fed.us/aqm/property/commuter-transit/ Has your Unit computed the fuel economy for each

vehicle and posted this information for pool vehicles? www.fueleconomy.gov

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?

http://fleet.dv.r5.fs.fed.us:8080/fleet/

Does your Unit check and correct tire pressure during required monthly inspections?

Lenise LagoDRF R6

Green PurchasingExample Actions Tools

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?

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&pge_prg_id=26960 USDA Biopreferred Product Compilation: http://www.dm.usda.gov/procurement/programs/biopreferred.htm Responsible Purchasing www.ResponsiblePurchasing.org

Has your unit moved from 30% post-consumer recycled content paper to 100% post-consumer recycled content paper?

•http://www.responsiblepurchasing.org/publications/09-11-04-RPN_Paper_Standards_Comparison_Chart.pdf

Has every employee who identifies purchasing needs, makes procurement requests or is a micropurchaser taken green purchasing training?

• 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/budget-objective-classification-codes-fact-sheet.pdf • Western Collective-sponsored green purchasing training webinars

Have you included green contract/procurement language in all of your acquisition orders/contracts when appropriate?

http://www.fedcenter.gov/programs/buygreen/ (scroll down to the contract/procurement language subheading)

Sustainability LeadershipExample Actions Tools

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?

Green Team Toolkit:http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/greenteam-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?

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The 7th Footprint = F-U-N

http://www.fs.fed.us/sustainableoperations/extreme-makeover/index.shtml

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

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

Environmental Performance

DATA

Automatically populates regularly via Forest

Service data systems

Self-reporting

DATA

FS Unit enters info once a year

(or more, if desired)

SUCCESS STORIES

PEER-to-PEER Learning &

Other Information

LISO PORTAL SCREEN

Anyone can upload info and share

stories at any time.

How to connect?

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 ResourcesFEMP 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 ResourcesDOE/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 ResourcesR5/PSW Environmental Footprint Report:• http://fsweb.psw.fs.fed.us/Sust_Ops-Env_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/