Overall Rating Gold - expired
Overall Score 66.27
Liaison Katie Maynard
Submission Date May 9, 2012
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STARS v1.2

University of California, Santa Barbara
SD-11: Procurement

Status Score Responsible Party
Complete N/A Mo Lovegreen
Director
Campus Sustainability
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The percentage of institutionally purchased appliances that are ENERGY STAR rated (of eligible appliance categories):
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Does the institution have a policy to purchase ENERGY STAR appliances whenever possible?:
Yes

The percentage of expenditures on Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified office paper (US/Canadian dollars) :
56.30

Does the institution’s vendor code or policy require vendors to use less packaging?:
Yes

Data source(s) and notes about the submission:

Our 90-100% recycled content paper is all Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified. Our 30-49% recycled content is Sustainable Forestry Initiative Certified Sourcing (www.sfiprogram.org SFI-01168) - which represents another 41.5% of our spend in paper. Total UCSB percentage of spend in certified paper is 97.8%.


Our 90-100% recycled content paper is all Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified. Our 30-49% recycled content is Sustainable Forestry Initiative Certified Sourcing (www.sfiprogram.org SFI-01168) - which represents another 41.5% of our spend in paper. Total UCSB percentage of spend in certified paper is 97.8%.

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