Helping Federal Facilities Incorporate Environmentally Beneficial Landscaping into Their Environmental Management Systems

GreenScapes and the EPA EMS program have developed guidance for federal facilities entitled http://www.epa.gov/epaoswer/non-hw/green/pubs/green-ems.pd Integrating Environmentally Beneficial Landscaping into Your EMS. The document provides practical guidance, potential language, and examples of environmentally beneficial landscaping practices for each of the EMS elements prescribed by ISO 14001 standards. The intended audience includes federal facility staff tasked with developing an EMS and reducing the environmental impact of facility landscaping activities, however, this guidance document will help any organization with the addition of sustainable landscaping practices to an existing EMS or the incorporation of sustainable landscaping into the development of an EMS. This piece can easily be used by any private or public organization that is looking to incorporate green landscaping into their EMS. You can find this on the http://www.epa.gov/greenscapes GreenScapes Web site under the "Resources" section.

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