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| May 2008 - In This Issue |
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| RPN Program News |
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| Responsible Purchasing in the News |
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RPN Member Spotlight: San Jose's Green Electronics Purchasing
Green Technology Magazine recently featured the City of San Jose's pioneering use of EPEAT as a tool for greening their electronics purchasing.
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Green Seal Initiates Residential Cleaning Service Standard
Green Seal is initiating the development of a new standard for Residential Cleaning Services and inviting stakeholders to participate in the development of this standard.
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HP Workstations Achieve Solid EPEAT Gold
HP's entire line of personal workstation computers has achieved a Gold Electronic Products Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT) rating--a first for personal workstations.
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| Overheard in the Forums |
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Overheard in the Forums: Seeking Recycled Office Furniture RFP
Christine Tien, of the City of Stockton, CA, writes: "Has anyone done an RFP for recycled content office furniture that you'd like to share?"
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| Calendar of Events |
Check our online events page for a more complete calendar of events. Please e-mail events for the calendar to rpn@newdream.org. Look for RPN staff at events marked with  |
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| Green Earth Expo |
Orlando, FL |
May 14-18 |
| National Environmental Partnership Summit |
Baltimore, MD |
May 19-22 |
| Product Certifications: What do they mean? |
Webinar |
May 21 |
| National Product Stewardship Forum |
Boston, MA |
June 3-5 |
| Green Procurement Exposition & Conference |
Chicago, IL |
June 4-5 |
| Earth Now Expo |
Las Vegas, NV |
June 4-5 |
| Greenfair Silicon Valley |
San Jose, CA |
June 7-8 |
| How Environment/Social/Governance Criteria Are Used by the Investment Community |
Webinar |
June 12 |
| Greener by Design |
Alexandria, VA |
June 12-13 |
| LOHAS 12 Forum |
Boulder, CO |
June 18-21 |
| REACH and the U.S. Exporter |
Washington, DC |
June 24 |
| Green Real Estate Conference |
Denver, CO |
July 16-17 |
| Southwest Greening Government Conference |
Flagstaff, AZ |
July 25 |
| NIGP Forum and Products Exposition 2008 |
Charlotte, NC |
July 26-30 |
| GreenGov Conference 2008 |
Arlington, VA |
August 14-15 |
| LogiChem 2008 |
Atlanta, GA |
September 22-24 |
| Carbon Finance Asia 2008 |
Singapore |
October 7-10 |
| Ethanol and Biofuels Asia 2008 |
Singapore |
October 7-10 |
| Solar Asia 2008 |
Singapore |
October 7-10 |
| Virginia Association of Governmental Purchasing Conference |
Lansdowne, VA |
October 29-31 |
| AASHE 2008 Conference |
Raleigh, NC |
November 9-11 |
| Greenbuild 2008 International Conference and Expo |
Boston, MA |
November 18-21 |
| EcoBuild Fall and AEC-ST Fall |
Washington, DC |
December 8-11 |
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