Purchasers and industry representatives gathered at the 2017 EPEAT Purchaser Awards reception sponsored by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI). Pictured left to right: U.S Department of Energy Office of Environmental Protection Director Josh Silverman, East Tennessee Technology Park IT Specialist Teresa Krannig, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Information Systems Director Jeanne Beard, EPEAT Director Melanie Bower, Global Electronics CouncilCEO Nancy Gillis, DOE Mission Support Alliance Project Administrator Chris Shannon, and Oak Ridge Associated Universities Buyer Ron McCandless.
Washington DC– 三月份 14, 2017 – The Global Electronics Council (GEC), managers of the EPEAT ecolabel, presented 37 organizations with a 2017 EPEAT Purchaser Award in recognition of their leadership in the procurement of sustainable IT products. When combined, the 2017 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners realized cost savings of more than $33.8 million across the lifetime of their purchased products. Along with significant cost savings, the 37 EPEAT Purchaser Award winners also recognized considerable environmental benefits from their purchasing decisions including combined greenhouse gas reductions equivalent to removing more than 40,000 passenger cars from the road for a year; a reduction of nearly 769 metric tons of hazardous waste; solid waste savings equivalent to that produced by 2,078 average U.S. households each year; a reduction in energy usage by 327.5 million kWh; and avoidance of 513.8 metric tons of water pollutant emissions. Large-scale public and private sector purchasers globally rely on the EPEAT Registry, the leading online rating system of sustainable IT products, to identify and purchase sustainable IT products. “The EPEAT ecolabel was established to provide large-scale purchasers a way to identify credible sustainable IT products,” said Melanie Bower, Director of EPEAT. “The EPEAT Purchaser Awards allows us to recognize those organizations who chose to realize significant cost savings and positive environmental benefits by making informed decisions about the IT products they purchase.” The Global Electronics Council recognized the EPEAT Purchaser Award winners at a ceremony sponsored by the Information Technology Industry Council (ITI), the premier advocacy and policy organization for the world’s leading innovation companies. Award ceremony speakers included Ian Kirk, a purchaser representative from the Canadian Government, and Joel Sigler, Senior Manager of National Environmental Health & Safety at Kaiser Permanente. The Global Electronics Council also honored the State Electronics Challenge with the 2017 Sustainable Purchasing Visionary Award. Since 2008, the State Electronics Challenge has enabled state, tribal, regional, and local governments, including schools and other public entities, to purchase and manage IT products in an environmentally sound manner. The State Electronics Challenge currently has 167 partner organizations that purchase EPEAT-registered IT products. Award Winners This year’s EPEAT Purchaser Awardees represented local, state, and national governments, healthcare systems, research facilities, school districts, higher education institutions, and private enterprises. In this – the awards program’s third year – the Global Electronics Councilnotably recognized its first India-based EPEAT Purchaser Awardee. Award winners were recognized for their purchases in three IT product categories: PCs and Displays, Imaging Equipment, and Televisions. Award winners earned one star for each product category in which they committed to purchasing EPEAT registered products.
Sustainable Purchasing Visionary Award
三星级获奖者
- 美国缉毒局埃尔帕索情报中心 (EPIC)
- 芝加哥洛约拉大学
- 任务支持联盟；CH2M Hill PRC；华盛顿河流保护解决方案
- 美国能源部国家可再生能源实验室
- 橡树岭联系大学
- 美国缉毒局调查技术办公室
- 美国缉毒局培训办公室
- 美国能源部普林斯顿等离子体物理实验室
- 美国国土安全部
- 美国退伍军人事务部
双星奖得主
- 美国能源部巴特尔能源联盟
- 美国能源部布鲁克海文国家实验室
- 加州总务部
- 美国缉毒局芝加哥分局
- 美国能源部东田纳西科技园区
- 凯撒医疗集团
- 遗产管理，美国能源部
- 导弹防御局
- 美国能源部科技信息办公室
- 朴茨茅斯气体扩散厂，美国能源部
- 美国缉毒局西南实验室
- 明尼苏达州
- 佛蒙特大学
- 威斯康星大学-奥什科什分校
- 美国总务管理局
一星奖得主
- 鲍登学院
- 杜兰戈市
- 普罗维登斯市、普罗维登斯学校
- 克利夫兰诊所
- 马里兰州交通部
- 纽约州
- 东北再循环理事会公司
- 加拿大共享服务
- 托马斯-杰斐逊国家加速器，能源部
- 美国环保局第 III 地区
- 美国缉毒局西部实验室
- 维普罗有限公司
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