Alternate Goals

Performance Track recognizes that facilities may identify opportunities to contribute significantly to the environment through activities that may not fit within Performance Track's current performance goal parameters. Therefore, the program encourages renewing members to propose alternate performance goals that fall outside the boundaries of the indicators in the Environmental Performance Table or are not directly related to the facility's operations.

Thirty-one renewing members set alternate goals in 2007.

This page presents highlights of some of these innovative goals and the steps members are taking to achieve them.

DuPuy Orthopaedics, Inc., of Raynham, Massachusetts, will help the town of Raynham reduce energy use in town-owned buildings by 10 percent.

IBM Burlington, of Essex Junction, Vermont, will work with the Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation and local conservation organizations to perform water quality sampling and analysis in the Winooski River watershed. IBM anticipates identifying up to 12 locations for sampling at a frequency of 4-6 times per year.

Consumer Products Company, of Skillman, New Jersey, will apply a newly developed environmental safety screening process to its raw materials, categorizing them according to environmental hazard, and will incorporate the results into screening tools that can be used to develop product formulas worldwide. The goal of the project is to reduce impacts on aquatic environments from consumer skin care products that are washed off after use.

Concurrent Technologies Corporation, of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, will gradually replace all of its 1,400 computers with systems that meet the silver-tier EPEAT environmental and energy performance standards. The company plans to replace 350 computers each year, with the old computers being donated to nonprofit organizations that repair and rebuild computers.

Baker Petrolite's Rayne Blend Plant, in Rayne, Louisiana, will work with the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality and schools in the community to help inventory chemicals in schools, assist with their safe disposal, and assist in developing chemical management plans.

Kodak Colorado Division, in Windsor, Colorado, will monitor and fund the associated biological studies for several water quality monitoring sites along the Cache la Poudre River, providing the results to regulators and the public via a database.

Epson Portland Inc., of Hillsboro, Oregon, will focus its alternate goal on sustainable land and water management by pursuing dual certification through both the LEED-EB and Salmon-Safe programs.

To be certified as a 'Salmon-Safe' site, the site must undergo an assessment by a team of three qualified, independent, and credible experts hired by Salmon-Safe, with technical assistance from Salmon-Safe and advisors. The Salmon-Safe program's requirements mesh well with those of the LEED-EB program, which also concerns itself with sustainable land and water management, as well as eco-friendly building upgrades when the time comes for such retrofits.

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