Lean Green teams are coming. And they’ll be helping the Postal Service™ build on our long history of environmental leadership, as well as achieve our strategic sustainability performance goals.
Over the next 2 years, Lean Green teams will be deployed to all districts and network distribution centers to engage employees in creating a culture of conservation. They’ll be our “green feet on the ground” in the field much as our carrier “fleet of feet” is leaving a green footprint across the American landscape.
With a presence in every community across the nation, USPS® is especially mindful of the impact today’s actions can have on future generations. Our sustainability goals and targets are designed to make the best use of resources, reduce financial costs, and benefit our employees, customers, and the communities we serve.
Our green practices and successes are widely recognized — recycling and mail-back programs, vehicles powered by electricity and alternative fuels, planet-friendly certified mailing and shipping supplies, and more.
Recent USPS sustainability leadership efforts include these achievements:
n The first federal agency to have a sustainability officer.
n The first federal agency to publish a third-party-verified greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions inventory and commit to absolute GHG reductions.
n One of the first federal agencies to issue Global Reporting Initiative–based public sustainability performance reports (2008 and 2009).
n A leading member of an international posts coalition to become the first industry sector to commit to GHG reductions at the 2009 United Nations Climate Conference in Copenhagen.
n Being named “most trusted government agency” for 6 consecutive years.
Achieving our sustainability goals will be extremely challenging as we face the most significant financial crisis in our history. That’s why we’re focusing on low-cost, high-benefit initiatives that will help us achieve our sustainability goals and build on our vision to be a sustainability leader.
Our newly released Strategic Sustainability Performance Plan describes our goals and targets, and summarizes our implementation initiatives. You can read it at http://blue.usps.gov/sustainability.
— Strategy and Program Management,
Sustainability, 9-9-10
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