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Summaries of SRA Grants Issued by Headquarters in FY '03
Recipient: The Coalition for Environmentally Responsible Economies
(CERES)
EPA funding: $35,000
CERES will attempt to encourage hotels to apply environmentally preferable
purchasing principles by: 1) obtaining support from institutional purchasers;
2) communicating to corporate boards and senior management of major hotel
chains that participating institutional purchasers prefer environmentally
responsible hotel services; and 3) obtaining commitments from hotels to
endorse the CERES Principles and to engage in standardized environmental
reporting through CERES and the CERES-led Global Reporting Initiative.
Recipient: Center for a New American Dream (CNAD)
EPA funding: $45,000
CNAD will develop a procurement strategies program to educate and support
buyers to redirect their purchasing dollars towards environmentally preferable
products. To accomplish this goal, CNAD will help selected jurisdictions
and institutions write and implement contracts for environmentally preferable
goods and services.
Recipient: Environmental Council of the States (ECOS)
EPA funding: $30,000
ECOS will: 1) provide states an opportunity to exchange ideas and learn
from each other by developing model performance partnership agreements
(PPA) and performance partnership grant (PPG) examples; 2) conduct one
Cross-Media Committee session at an ECOS conference to explore ways to
develop more comprehensive PPAs and PPGs so that the structure of these
agreements will focus on gathering pollution prevention results and identifying
pollution prevention opportunities; and 3) develop pollution prevention
approaches for the National Environmental Performance Partnership System
(NEPPS).
Recipient: GreenClips
EPA funding: $5,000
GreenClips will support future publications of GreenClips, a newsletter,
distributed via e-mail twice a month, that summarizes news on environmentally
responsible architecture. GreenClips will also support efforts to educate
the building design community about integrating pollution prevention principles
into their business practices.
Recipient: Green Seal
EPA funding: $59,920
Green Seal will publish a report providing environmental standards for
environmentally preferable purchasing standards for floor cleaners, strippers,
sealants and polishes. The report is meant to be utilized as a guidance
tool for corporations, federal, state, and tribal governments. The EPP
standards will be applied under the requirements of ISO 14020 and 14020
and will meet the definition of consensus in OMB Policy Letter A-119.
Recipient: Institute for Lifecycle Energy Analysis (ILEA)
EPA funding:$13,820
ILEA will provide general public access to life-cycle assessments (LCAs)
about consumer products. ILEA will perform product comparisons on various
products, some examples include buying books: electronic vs. printed;
hand drying: paper towel vs. forced-air; buying produce: organic vs. non-organic;
buying automobiles: hybrid electric vs. bio-diesel; etc.
Recipient: National Pollution Prevention Roundtable (NPPR)
EPA funding: $25,000
NPPR will use the requested funds to support state and tribal pollution
prevention initiatives and to organize their national spring conference
in 2004. Under the state and tribal pollution prevention initiative NPPR
will support a national forum for the tribes to meet with state pollution
prevention leaders throughout the U.S. for information exchange and networking.
To prepare for the 2004 spring conference, NPPR will showcase the latest
developments in the field of pollution prevention to directly benefit
state, tribal and local governments as well as non-governmental organizations.