GSA Leads in Green Government

GSA has a long history of providing environmentally sound or sustainable products and services, reducing waste and pollution, and providing federal employees with a healthy work environment.

In fact, in 2008, GSA Fleet provided its customers with almost 23,000 alternative fuel vehicles, accounting for 38 percent of Fleet’s total inventory of 225,000 vehicles. That brings to total inventory to more than 80,000 AFVs. More than 700 are hybrids, operating on both electricity and gasoline.

Also in FY 2008, GSA completed a $6.9 million solar park at the Federal Center in Denver. The park generates 1.6 megawatts of electric power, which in turn will prevent approximately 1,244 metric tons of carbon dioxide from being emitted into the atmosphere and a half-dozen railcars of coal from being burned each day to produce the same amount of electricity GSA sponsored 14 telework centers, which saved an estimated 2.8 million travel miles, almost 115,000 gallons of fuel, and 2.3 million pounds of carbon emissions.