RPN was recently awarded a grant from the Town Creek Foundation to assist with the development and implementation of sustainable procurement policies and practices in Maryland; Washington, DC; and Northern Virginia.
RPN will provide technical support to help Maryland state officials develop environmental product specifications, evaluate bids to avoid "green-washing," create a website to facilitate dissemination of environmentally responsible procurement across the state bureaucracy and to other public agencies and institutions, and establish a tracking system to measure expenditures, cost impacts, and environmental and health benefits.
The Town Creek Foundation, founded in 1981, focuses its support on initiatives that restore the Chesapeake Bay, work towards climate change mitigation goals, and promotes work that explains and exemplifies the need for frameworks and processes of an even more transformational nature.
