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Purchasing power: The massachusetts environmental procurement program.
By purchasing recycled and other environmentally preferable products, governments can positively impact the environment and even save money. Massachusetts' efforts in this regard can serve as a model for implementing a successful environmental procurement program.
What do sustainability, procurement, and good government have in common? In Massachusetts, they are the key ingredients of an effort to make state government more environmentally friendly, while at the same time increasing agency productivity and often saving money. Since the mid-1990s, the Commonwealth of Massachusetts has taken a leadership role among states in a unique area of environmental ...
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