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Sustainability and Environmental ManagementFederal customer agencies can count on GSA to provide first class workplaces at good economies to the American taxpayer, while ensuring environmental stewardship through sustainability. The head of each federal agency is responsible for ensuring that all necessary actions are taken to integrate environmental accountability into agency day-to-day decision making and long-term planning. This is stated in the goals and requirements of Executive Order (EO) 13423, Strengthening Federal Environmental, Energy, and Transportation Management.
Sustainability is an economic, social, and environmental concept. It is intended to be a means of configuring civilization and human activity so that society and its members are able to meet their needs and express their greatest potential in the present, while preserving natural ecosystems for the future. The Rocky Mountain region is carrying out this concept through the framework of an Environmental Management System (EMS). EMS is a set of processes and practices that enables an organization to reduce its environmental impacts and increase its operating efficiency. An EMS is built around identifying, prioritizing, controlling, and improving those elements of an organization that interact with the environment. This is achieved by developing procedures to reduce the impact an organization's activities, products, or services have on the environment. The audience for EMS and Sustainability & Environmental Management System (SEMS) includes these stakeholders:
The shortcut to this page is www.gsa.gov/sems.
Last Reviewed 8/15/2008
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