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A Fort Ahead

Building and maintaining the sustainable installation is one of the most challenging tasks facing the Army today. The Army has a proud record of environmental compliance and stewardship on its properties, but increasingly environmental management goals for the Army are being affected by the state of the environment right outside of installation fence-lines. Encroaching communities, increasing maneuver/training and equipment testing requirements, deteriorating natural resources, funding uncertainties, aging infrastructure, and other variables all challenge the Army's ability to maintain mission readiness while being a model steward of the environment. Several installations are developing integrated strategies that engage all stakeholders to ensure the long-term viability of their installations. They are positioning themselves to continue their proud record of service to our nation.

Army Strategy for the Environment

The Army's sustainability vision provides the transformational approach for operating successfully under these increasingly challenging conditions. It was developed to provide the Army with a systems approach to the triple bottom line of mission, environment, and community.

The Army adapts the triple bottom line to its national security mission in its "mission, community, and environment" paradigm. It promulgates six goals to successfully meet the Army's triple bottom line.

The goals of the Army's sustainability strategy are as follows:
  • Foster a sustainability ethic: Foster an ethic within the Army that takes us beyond environmental compliance to sustainability.
  • Strengthen Army operations: Strengthen Army operational capability by reducing our environmental footprint through more sustainable practices.
  • Meet test, training, and mission requirements: Meet current and future training, testing, and other mission requirements by sustaining land, air, and water resources.
  • Minimize impacts and total ownership costs: Minimize impacts and total ownership costs of Army systems, material, facilities, and operations by integrating the principles and practices of sustainability.
  • Enhance well-being: Enhance the well-being of our Soldiers, civilians, families, neighbors, and communities through leadership in sustainability.
  • Drive innovation: Use innovative technology and the principles of sustainability to meet user needs and anticipate future Army challenges. These goals were derived from the Army Strategy Map and all six goals support the Army's four overarching integrated goals.

Sustaining the health and welfare of local communities is the starting place for sustaining the health and welfare of the world. Here and everywhere we are all dependent upon a quality environment and availability of needed resources to preserve our quality of life — for all citizens … soldiers and civilians alike.

Green Procurement

Green Procurement (GP) means purchasing environmentally preferable products and services in accordance with one or more of the established Federal procurement preference programs. Most Army, DoD and federal procurement agencies can help to identify environmentally friendly products. This section provides direct links to some of those online catalogs.

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