Smart Energy Management is Smart Business All authors involved in this energy series hope that you, the reader, are taking away one key message – being smart about energy is smart business.  Smart energy management – from long-term, strategic planning to tactical actions such as putting your computer in sleep mode can have a profound compounding effect on an organizations wallet and the environment. 

With the issuance of Executive Order 13514 (the EO) on federal sustainability, the Obama administration has called upon the federal government to lead by example: making its operations more sustainable, responsible, and efficient. “As the largest consumer of energy in the U.S. economy, the federal government

Strategic sustainability planning can seem like a daunting task, especially for those organizations that don’t have sustainability expertise on hand.  But, as with any strategic initiative, one of the hardest parts is gathering the information that is pertinent to your objective, which in this case, is making your organization more sustainable for the sake of the environment and your organization’s bottom line.  Once you have this information, deciding what to cut and what to measure on an ongoing basis becomes a lot easier.  In essence, you can’t manage what you haven’t meas

In 2009, the U.S. Postal Service collected, sorted, and delivered more than 177 billion pieces of mail. Finding more sustainable ways to process this mail and lower the carbon footprint of such a massive effort continues to be a central goal of the U.S. Postal Service. We spoke with Sam Pulcrano, Vice President of Sustainability at the U.S. Postal Service, about his leadership in forging sustainable operations, reducing the Postal Service’s carbon footprint, being good environmental stewards, and how it is leveraging innovation in all its sustainability efforts.

The Center is pleased to announce the publication of the Fall/Winter 2010 The Business of Government

How does NYC DEP protect the environmental health, welfare and natural resources of the City and its residents? What does it take to deliver over one billion gallons of quality drinking water daily to over 8 million residents? How is NYC greening its operations and making them more sustainable? What steps are being taken to maintain NYC's water system for the next hundred years?  

Commissioner New York City Department of Environmental Protection (DEP)

Appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg to lead the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Commissioner Caswell F. (Cas) Holloway took office on January 1, 2010.  Prior to his appointment, he served as Chief of Staff to Deputy Mayor for Operations Edward Skyler and as Special Advisor to Mayor Bloomberg. 

Vice President for Sustainability, United States Postal Service (USPS)

Sam Pulcrano was named Vice President, Sustainability in May 2008. He reports to the Senior Vice President, Operations. Pulcrano is responsible for unifying the Postal Service's sustainability efforts across every function and location. Earlier, Pulcrano was director of Safety and Environmental Performance at USPS Headquarters. He began his career as a mail handler in Poughkeepsie, NY, in 1975. He also has held key positions in Human Resources and Labor Relations at the district and area levels.