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Ready to sharpen your skills? Don't miss "Maximizing the Impact of Sustainable Purchasing" a morning workshop offered in Vancouver on May 11.

You'll learn how to maximize the impact of a sustainable purchasing strategy, leverage your purchasing power with tools, scorecards and product guidelines, and build stronger relationships with suppliers.

Space is limited, so register early! Learn more.

Buy Sustainably, Buy Smart

The BuySmart Network (formerly the Sustainability Purchasing Network) is a key source of information and education on sustainable purchasing. Administered by the non-profit Fraser Basin Council, BuySmart benefits from the participation of leaders in business, public bodies and non-profit organizations who are willing to share procurement strategies and learn from each other.

Would you like to help create a cleaner environment, a healthier community and better workplaces by weighing the social, economic and environmental impacts of the goods and services you buy? Welcome ― this website is for you.

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Maximizing the Impact of Sustainable Purchasing

posted on 3:35 PM, October 13, 2011

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When: Friday, May 11, 2012 (9:00 am - noon, with registration and continental breakfast at 8:30 am)
Where: TIDEScanada, 163 West Hastings Street, Vancouver (Hollyhock Room 304)
Cost: $125 + HST

Are you familiar with the basics of sustainable purchasing? Do you want to tailor your organization's procurement process to reflect sustainability principles? Then you'll find our next BuySmart workshop a perfect fit!  We'll show you ways to integrate sustainability into bid documents, create performance scorecards for suppliers, evaluate proposals and more.

Check it out!   

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New Purchasing Resources

posted on 3:33 PM, October 13, 2011

Check out these resources:

  • Focus forward – enhancing supply chain value with green logistics and transportation – New in a series of sustainability reports from SCL and RBC, Focus forward helps businesses understand and tackle the top five environmental challenges relevant to operational logistics. Read the report.
  • ENP Social Enterprise Purchasing Toolkit – Enterprising Non-Profits offers online resources, including a directory of Canadian social enterprises, to help you consider social values in purchasing decisions. Explore the toolkit on the ENP website.
  • Global Scan of Sustainable Purchasing Practices – Here are highlights of a scan of the sustainable purchasing practices of companies both inside and outside the insurance industry. Download the summary. The full report is available on the Cooperators website.
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Does it really matter what a business buys? It does! Just ask our sponsors. By leading change for environmental, social and economic sustainability, they are seeing value in a triple bottom line. And by supporting the BuySmart Network, they are helping others do the same.

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Program Vision

The vision of the BuySmart Network is for organizations in all sectors to recognize sustainable purchasing as smart purchasing and to make it integral to their operations.

Our Work

The BuySmart Network helps public, private and non-profit organizations learn how to purchase products and services that offer social, economic and environmental benefits and to create a sustainable purchasing strategy that supports their own goals.

Our Sponsors

The work of the BuySmart Network is possible thanks to the generosity of our sponsors, along with the contributions of partners, advisors and a circle of participants. Find out more.

Reach Us

BuySmart is a program of the Fraser Basin Council (FBC), a charitable non-profit society that advances sustainability in the Fraser River Basin, across BC, and beyond. Established in 1997, FBC brings people together from multiple sectors to learn about sustainability and find collaborative solutions to current issues.

For more on the BuySmart Network, contact , Director of External Relations and Corporate Development at the Fraser Basin Council.

Learn more about FBC by visiting www.fraserbasin.bc.ca.
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