The Big Green Buy, Gaining Momentum

Government procurement must be reoriented away from dirty fossil fuels and toxic products toward cleaner alternatives to expand demand for such things. The Big Green Buy is gaining momentum, but fitfully.

By Christian Parenti

We already have the technologies needed to create a low carbon, less toxic economy: electric vehicles, utility-scale wind and solar, and large-scale organic agriculture.

One simple way to scale up these technologies is to reorient government procurement away from dirty fossil fuels and toxic products toward cleaner alternatives to exp…