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Plan to attend our "Introduction to Sustainable Purchasing," a morning learning event offered in Vancouver on February 24. Take a look!

Also watch for “Advanced Sustainable Purchasing,” scheduled for the Spring of 2012.

A better buying strategy can reduce your carbon footprint and offer other measurable results to help you deliver on your corporate responsibility commitments. Our learning events are the place to begin.



Learning Events

learning_event_2.jpegBuySmart offers training workshops, learning circles and other events open to everyone with an interest in sustainability purchasing.

Learning events can also be tailored for communities or for workplaces to help executives, managers and staff sharpen their knowledge and skills. Each learning event offers practical information with valuable take-aways:

  • Discover ways to save costs, advance innovation and help create new business opportunities
  • Learn how to overcome internal barriers to sustainability purchasing
  • Develop “know-how” to build strong supplier relationships that improve reliability and performance
  • Learn how to manage environmental, social and ethical risks along supply chains
  • Develop expertise and brand in an emerging purchasing specialty area.

Here are some of the topics covered in BuySmart events:

  • Sustainability Purchasing 101
  • Case Studies in Green Fleet Management
  • Green Printing
  • Reducing Carbon in your Supply Chain

Watch our calendar for what’s on in 2011. Would you like to have BuySmart arrange a learning event for your organization or for your sector? Would you like to sponsor an event? Bring us your ideas!

Contact Bob Purdy at E: or T: 604 488-5355.

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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