Scot Case

An early review of Loop's "milkman" model for consumer products like spaghetti, ice cream, shampoo, cleaning products, and more delivered to your doorstep in reusable/returnable containers.

I’ve spent much of my career as an advocate of trickle-down sustainability. I thought we’d be a lot further along by now. Trickle-down sustainability either does not work, is not working or is not working fast enough

Describes what sustainability means to smaller companies that are not (yet) part of the Fortune 100. Based on interviews with more than 50 local Berks County, Pennsylvania, business executives, the report profiles companies for which sustainability means...growing family businesses, saving money, building the company of the future, putting the customer first, eating better food, drinking better beer, and more.

Quick overview of some of the sustainable purchasing tools consumers and organizations are using to buy healthier, greener, and more sustainable products and services.

Moves beyond the environmental marketing debate about whether customers want "green seals of approval" or "environmental nutrition labels" to explain the value of both to different types of customers.

An overview of common green marketing mistakes and how to avoid them.

A follow up to the 2007 Sins of Greenwashing study that added an additional, seventh sin -- the Sin of Worshipping False Labels.

Documented the rise in "greenwashing," misleading environmental claims about products or services designed to increase sales. It identified six "sins" such as the sin of fibbing, the sin of no proof, and the sin of the hidden trade-off to highlight the variety of ways consumers can be misled.

The report received considerable coverage leading to U.S. Congressional hearings, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) committee, interviews on Good Morning America,CBS News, National Public Radio, and… Show more

Documented the rise in "greenwashing," misleading environmental claims about products or services designed to increase sales. It identified six "sins" such as the sin of fibbing, the sin of no proof, and the sin of the hidden trade-off to highlight the variety of ways consumers can be misled.

The report received considerable coverage leading to U.S. Congressional hearings, a Federal Trade Commission (FTC) committee, interviews on Good Morning America,CBS News, National Public Radio, and in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Washington Post, and other publications around the world. Show less

Wrote a chapter on "Why Purchasing Matters" as part of a larger book designed to provide purchasing professionals and the executives to whom they report with useful information about buying greener, healthier, more sustainable products.

Tracks the growth of North American public procurement policies expressing preferences for greener, healthier, more sustainable products and services. Includes sample and recommended policy language.

From 2001 - 2014, Scot wrote for Government Procurement magazine tracking the ways government purchasers are using their purchasing power to buy greener, healthier, more sustainable products and services. Over 70 articles covering topics such as green purchasing practices; profiles on federal, state, and local green purchasing programs; and environmental standards, labels, and specfications for products including office furniture, cell phones, computers, carpets, cleaning products, office… Show more

From 2001 - 2014, Scot wrote for Government Procurement magazine tracking the ways government purchasers are using their purchasing power to buy greener, healthier, more sustainable products and services. Over 70 articles covering topics such as green purchasing practices; profiles on federal, state, and local green purchasing programs; and environmental standards, labels, and specfications for products including office furniture, cell phones, computers, carpets, cleaning products, office equipment, paper, automobiles, buildings, roads, and many others. Show less

An overview of the ways U.S. state and local governments are identifying, specifying, and buying greener, healthier, more sustainable products and services. Part of a series of EPA publications documenting the early days of the environmentally preferable purchasing movement.

Documented the emerging and growing interest in the purchase of more environmentally preferable goods and services by private sector companies. It was one of many related case studies I wrote as a contractor for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

Describes efforts by an U.S. Army base in Maryland to buy more environmentally preferable paints as a way of reducing the base's hazardous waste disposal costs. Part of a series of U.S. EPA case studies documenting the early environmentally preferable purchasing movement.

Documents early U.S. Federal government green building efforts in the days before the U.S. Green Building Council and its LEED standard. Includes case studies on two EPA construction projects, one in Research Triangle Park, NC, and the other in the Federal Triangle part of Washington, DC. Part of an early series of EPA reports documenting the early green purchasing movement.