Purchasing

Green purchasing involves not simply cost and quality but also the environmental impact of the product. UW Oshkosh is moving toward ever greater sustainability in its purchasing.

History

The university puchases copy paper, toilet paper, computer monitors, and photocopiers wtih recycled content.
Custodial services began purchasing environmentally safer cleaning chemicals in 2006.
Food vendors, campus retail stores, and dining services have made sustainable products (e.g., fair trade, organic, local, and humane) available for sale and special events.

New initiatives

Develop a sustainability-based purchasing policy.
Produce an annual green guide to purchasing.

Goal

Develop green purchasing policies in more than 50% of spending by 2012.

What YOU can do

When you buy paper, try to find a kind with 100% post-consumer content.
Buy eco-friendly cleaners.

Want to know more?

Here is a link to the section of our Campus Sustainability Plan on purchasing: CSP IV H - Purchasing

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by David Barnhill — last modified Feb 13, 2009 01:13 PM

Bike and Pedestrian Survey

The City of Oshkosh is updating its Pedestrian and Bicycle Circulation Plan and they are looking for public input from people who live, work, study, or recreate in Oshkosh. They have developed a website that has links to an online survey:

pedestrian_bicycle_plan

Even if you do not currently use a bike or walk to campus, completing the survey will help the city learn why you do not, or how they might improve city infrastructure.

Most of us use city facilities every day: sidewalks along streets carrying automobiles through campus are built by the city, to their current standards. The last public meeting was in August, so student and staff input was not representative of UW Oshkosh pedestrians and bicyclists. So please consider giving the city some feedback from the campus community.