Sustainability Best Practices Framework
- Energy Efficiency & Conservation
- Water & Wastewater Systems
- Green Building
- Waste Reduction & Recycling
- Climate-Friendly Purchasing
- Renewable Energy & Low-Carbon Fuels
- Efficient Transportation
- Land Use & Community Design
- Open Space & Offsetting Carbon Emissions
- Promoting Community & Individual Action

Climate-friendly purchasing is the procurement or acquisition of goods and services that are a lesser or reduced source of greenhouse gas emissions when compared with competing goods or services that serve the same purpose.



