Communications
Find information to communicate about Sustainable Operations in this section.
Quick Links to the topics on this page:
- Letters From Leadership
- Open Mic Notes
- Scorecards
- Powerpoints/Presentations
- Articles/Briefing Papers/Speeches/Newsletters
- National Sustainable Operations Strategy
- National Communications Plan
- Policy
- Reports
- Training and Conferences
- Links to Other Resources
- Glossary
Letters From Leadership
August 2008
- 8/16/07 USFS and NFF Partnership [PDF]
- Final Kerry Markey Q & A [PDF]
- 08/01/08 Forest Service Sustainable Operations – Web Forums [RTF]
June 2008
- 6/23/08 - Sustainable Operations in Fire and Aviation Operations [RTF]
- 06/23/08 Climate Change Companion Document to the Forest Service Strategic Plan for FY 2007-2012
[PDF]
- Enclosure: Enclosure: 02/15/08 Climate Change Letter
[RTF]
- Enclosure: High Priority Actions to Address Climate Change, 2008 [RTF]
- Enclosure: Enclosure: 02/15/08 Climate Change Letter
[RTF]
- 06/19/08 Environmental Management System Implementation [RTF]
October 2007
- 10/24/07 FY07 Sustainable Operations - Environmental Footprint Report Data Request [RTF]
- Enclosure: FY07FootprintDataRequestPrintout [PDF, 22 pages]
September 2007
- 9/24/07 EPA Climate Leaders Program [RTF]
- 9/20/07 Sustainable Operations and FY 2006 National Environmental Footprint Report [RTF]
- Enclosure: Sustainable Operations and Our Baseline Environmental Footprint FY2006 [PDF, 20 pages, 2.71MB]
- 9/17/07 USDA Implementing Executive Order 13423 Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management [PDF, 3 pages]
August 2007
- 8/16/07 Letter to the Hill on Carbon offsets
- Enclosure: 08/16/07 Letter to Chief Kimbell from Congressmen Kerry and Markey [PDF]
Open Mic Notes
- September 17, 2008 [RTF]
- August 20, 2008 [RTF]
- July 16, 2008 [RTF]
- June 18, 2008 [RTF]
- Reference: Fire and Aviation Management Sustainable Operations [RTF]
- Reference: Advancing EO 13423 Goals with Federal Agency Partners - NPS Concession Program
- May 21, 2008 [RTF]
- February 20, 2008 [RTF]
Scorecards
- 1/07 Energy [PDF]
- 1/07 Environmental Stewardship [PDF]
- 1/07 Transportation [PDF]
Powerpoints/Presentations
- Sustainable Operations - Our Environmental Footprint & The Climate Change Connection - Anna J. Jones-Crabtree P.E.; Ph.D.; LEED AP; Sustainable Operations Coordinator; Rocky Mountain & Northern Regions US Forest Service [PDF, 58 pages, 2.12 MB]
- BioPreferred - Making a Difference with Biobased Products [PDF, 16 pages, 218 kb]
- Electronics Initiative @ USDA [PDF, 24 pages, 783 kb]
- e-rase your e-waste!
NPARL Electronics Recycling Program [PPT, 5.72 MB]
Community Electronics Recycling Events
Articles / Briefing Papers / Speeches / Newsletters
Articles
- 8/01/008 – Government Executive.com – Tracking Greenbacks: Now that a federal program to buy green goods is a reality, Uncle Sam is discovering the difficulty of measuring its results.
- 8/01/08 – Government Executive.com – Time for Telework: As fuel prices, traffic and pollution peak, managers are becoming more open to letting employees work from home
- 8/01/08 – Government Executive.com – Building Capacity: General Service Administration is driving the market for sustainable workplaces
- 7/23/07- Federal Times- Boyd Rutherford: Promoting energy efficiency – one light bulb at a time
- 7/09/08 Federal Times – USFS Reducing Their Carbon Footprint
- 06/08/08 Federal Times - A Smaller Carbon Footprint?
- 2/25/08 The New Yorker - Big Foot: In Measuring Carbon Emissions, It's Easy to Confuse Morality and Science
- Chief’s Goes “Green” With the Holiday Season
- 12/28/2007 - Forest Service Joins EPA’s Climate Leaders Program
- 11/16/07 - The Chief’s Desk: People, Places, and Things [RTF]
- 10/26/07- The Chief’s Desk: People, Places and Things [RTF]
- 10/12/07 - The Chief's Desk: People, Places and Things [RTF]
- 10/01/07 - Article - Pacific Southwest Research Station goes to Biobased Cutlery [PDF]
- 7/07-8/07 The Crisis - The Fight for Environmental Justice (click on front cover text to jump to this article)
Briefing Papers
- 08/03/2007 EPA Seeks Applications for Clean Air Excellence Awards
- 08/03/2007 EPA Releases the Draft of 2007 Report on the Environment: Highlights of National Trends
- 08/03/2007 EPA Reports Significant Energy Efficiency Opportunities for U.S. Servers and Data Centers
- June 2008 Sustainable Operations Briefing [RTF]
- 8/27/07 Sustainable Operations Briefing Paper [RTF]
- 9/12/07 Green Team Briefing Paper [RTF]
- Sustainable Operations - Executive Order 13423 [PDF]
- 7/18/07 New Report Shows Environmental Benefits from Green Computers
Speeches
- 9/7/07 Chief’s Climate Change, Kids, and Forests: What's the Connection Speech before the Society of Environmental Journalists
Newsletters
- 10/08 - Sustainable Operations E-Newsletter, Vol. 2 [PDF]
- 08/08 - Sustainable Operations E-Newsletter, Vol. 1 [PDF]
National Sustainable Operations Strategy
- USDA Sustainable Building Implemenation Plan [PDF, 24 pages, 274 kb]
- 10/18/2007 Memo [PDF, 2 pages]
National Communications Plan
Policy
Acts
Executive Orders
- Executive Order 13423 [PDF]
- Executive Order Fact Sheet [PDF]
Public Laws
Reports
- Fiscal Year 2007 National Enviornmental Foot Print Report [PDF, 58 pages, 3.08 MB]
- Environmental Footprint Report Data Request [RTF, 101 kb]
- Environmental Footprint Survey Results Summary [PDF, 114 kb]
- Environmental Footprint Survey Results Responses [XLS, 530 kb]
- 2003 Summary Energy and Water [XLS, 676 kb]
- 2007 Summary Energy and Water [XLS, 658 kb]
- 2007 Fleet Report [PDF, 93 kb]
- 2006 Fleet Report [PDF, 93 kb]
- 2005 Fleet Report [PDF, 93 kb]
- 2004 Fleet Report [PDF, 93 kb]
- 2007 Trip Count [XLS, 174 kb]
- Draft - FY 2007 Annual Report on Energy Management [PDF, 28 pages, 594 kb]
- Meeting EO13423 and Energy Independence & Security Act of 2007 Goals by 2015 And Employing an Agency-wide Culture of Sustainable Practices by 2020 [pdf, 17 pages, 189 kb]
- 12/6/2007 Hazardous Chemicals Inventorying and Reporting [RTF]
- Six Months of Progress, A Report from the Green the Capitol Office [PDF]
- Leading By Example: Federal Government Environmental and Energy Efficiency Accomplishments for 2004-2006 [PDF, 104 pages, 2.04 MB]
- Sustainable Operations and Our Baseline Environmental Footprint FY2006 [PDF, 20 pages, 2.71MB]
- 2006 Carbonsense Report – What Would A Genuinely Carbon Neutral BT Look Like? [PDF]
- 4/05 The Billion Ton Report – Biomass as Feedstock for a Bioenergy and Bioproducts Industry: The Technical Feasibility of a Billion-Ton Annual Supply
Training and Conferences
Links to Other Resources
Other Agencies
- Office of the Federal Environmental Executive
- USDA – Sustainable Operations
www.greening.usda.gov - US Department of Energy
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- General Services Administration (GSA)
NGOs
- California Climate Registry
- Earthday Network
- Electronic Product Environmental Assessment Tool (EPEAT)
- Labs For the 21st Century
- National Forest Foundation
- Pinchot Institue for Conservation
- Sustainable Travel International
- The Forest Foundation
Glossary
- Communications Glossary [RTF]
Last Modified: 10/07/2008
