Acquirenti e rappresentanti dell'industria si sono riuniti al ricevimento EPEAT Purchaser Awards 2017 sponsorizzato dall'Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). Nella foto da sinistra a destra: Josh Silverman, direttore dell'Ufficio per la protezione ambientale del Dipartimento dell'energia degli Stati Uniti, Teresa Krannig, specialista IT dell'East Tennessee Technology Park, Jeanne Beard, direttore di EPEAT Melanie Bower, Nancy Gillis, amministratore del progetto DOE Mission Support Alliance Chris Shannon e Ron McCandless, acquirente della Oak Ridge Associated Universities.
Washington DC– March 14, 2017 – The Global Electronics Council (GEC), managers of the EPEAT ecolabel, presented 37 organizations with a 2017 EPEAT Purchaser Award in recognition of their leadership in the procurement of sustainable IT products. When combined, the 2017 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners realized cost savings of more than $33.8 million across the lifetime of their purchased products. Along with significant cost savings, the 37 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners also recognized considerable environmental benefits from their purchasing decisions including combined greenhouse gas reductions equivalent to removing more than 40,000 passenger cars from the road for a year; a reduction of nearly 769 metric tons of hazardous waste; solid waste savings equivalent to that produced by 2,078 average U.S. households each year; a reduction in energy usage by 327.5 million kWh; and avoidance of 513.8 metric tons of water pollutant emissions. Large-scale public and private sector purchasers globally rely on the EPEAT Registry, the leading online rating system of sustainable IT products, to identify and purchase sustainable IT products. “The EPEAT ecolabel was established to provide large-scale purchasers a way to identify credible sustainable IT products,” said Melanie Bower, Director of EPEAT. “The EPEAT Purchaser Awards allows us to recognize those organizations who chose to realize significant cost savings and positive environmental benefits by making informed decisions about the IT products they purchase.” The Global Electronics Council recognized the EPEAT Purchaser Award winners at a ceremony sponsored by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), the premier advocacy and policy organization for the world’s leading innovation companies. Award ceremony speakers included Ian Kirk, a purchaser representative from the Canadian Government, and Joel Sigler, Senior Manager of National Environmental Health & Safety at Kaiser Permanente. The Global Electronics Council also honored the State Electronics Challenge with the 2017 Sustainable Purchasing Visionary Award. Since 2008, the State Electronics Challenge has enabled state, tribal, regional, and local governments, including schools and other public entities, to purchase and manage IT products in an environmentally sound manner. The State Electronics Challenge currently has 167 partner organizations that purchase EPEAT-registered IT products.
Award Winners This year’s EPEAT Purchaser Awardees represented local, state, and national governments, healthcare systems, research facilities, school districts, higher education institutions, and private enterprises. In this – the awards program’s third year – the Global Electronics Councilnotably recognized its first India-based EPEAT Purchaser Awardee. Award winners were recognized for their purchases in three IT product categories: PCs and Displays, Imaging Equipment, and Televisions. Award winners earned one star for each product category in which they committed to purchasing EPEAT registered products.
Premio Visionario per l'Acquisto Sostenibile
Vincitori del Premio Tre Stelle
- Centro di intelligence di El Paso (EPIC), DEA degli Stati Uniti
- Università Loyola di Chicago
- Mission Support Alliance; CH2M Hill PRC; Washington River Protection Solutions
- Laboratorio nazionale per le energie rinnovabili, U.S. DOE
- Università associate di Oak Ridge
- Ufficio della tecnologia investigativa, U.S. DEA
- Ufficio di formazione, U.S. DEA
- Laboratorio di fisica del plasma di Princeton, U.S. DOE
- Dipartimento della Sicurezza Nazionale degli Stati Uniti
- Dipartimento degli Affari dei Veterani degli Stati Uniti
Vincitori del premio a due stelle
- Alleanza energetica Battelle, DOE degli Stati Uniti
- Laboratorio nazionale Brookhaven, U.S. DOE
- Dipartimento dei servizi generali della California
- Divisione operativa di Chicago, U.S. DEA
- Parco tecnologico del Tennessee orientale, U.S. DOE
- Kaiser Permanente
- Gestione dell'eredità, U.S. DOE
- Agenzia per la difesa missilistica
- Ufficio delle informazioni scientifiche e tecniche, U.S. DOE
- Impianto di diffusione gassosa di Portsmouth, U.S. DOE
- Laboratorio del sud-ovest, U.S. DEA
- Stato del Minnesota
- Università del Vermont
- Università del Wisconsin - Oshkosh
- Amministrazione dei servizi generali degli Stati Uniti
Vincitori del premio One-Star
- Bowdoin College
- Città di Durango
- Città di Providence, Scuole di Providence
- Clinica Cleveland
- Dipartimento dei Trasporti del Maryland
- Stato di New York
- Northeast Recycling Council, Inc.
- Servizi condivisi Canada
- Struttura nazionale di accelerazione Thomas Jefferson, DOE
- U.S. EPA Regione III
- Laboratorio occidentale, U.S. DEA
- Wipro Limited
