Elizabethtown College News Release
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
3/27/06
Contact: Mary Dolheimer, director of marketing and media relations, 717-361-1587, dolheimerm@etown.edu
Environmental purchasing expert to present ‘Rethinking the American Dream: Why More and More is No Longer Enough’
ELIZABETHTOWN, Pa. – An internationally recognized expert on environmentally preferable purchasing will 
present “Rethinking the American Dream: Why More and More is No Longer Enough” at 11 a.m., April 19, in Elizabethtown College’s Esbenshade Hall. The talk by Scot Case, scheduled for Gibble Auditorium, is open to the public free of charge.
As an independent consultant, former director of procurement strategies at the Center for a New American Dream and director of the Alvernia College Faculty Institute, Case helps institutional purchasers buy less polluting products from less polluting companies. His position keeps him in touch with thousands of public and private sector officials around the world who are interested in reducing the environmental impacts of their purchasing decisions.
Case has delivered more than 80 keynote speeches, full-day trainings or presentations throughout the United States and abroad to audiences of up to 1,000 people. He has published more than four dozen articles, case studies and book chapters. As a consultant to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, he wrote an extensive series of reports documenting the growing environmental purchasing movement. He currently writes a regular feature in Government Procurement magazine called “The Green Purchaser.”
In addition, he works with experts to build consensus and momentum behind environmental purchasing criteria such as the specifications being used nationwide to buy safer, effective cleaning products. In 2002, he helped launch the North American Green Purchasing Initiative (NAGPI), a network of organizations working to accelerate the demand for safer, more environmentally preferable products. Most recently, he launched the Responsible Purchasing Network, a group of influential purchasers using their purchasing power to buy better goods and services.
At Elizabethtown College -- central Pennsylvania’s premier small, comprehensive college -- 1800 men and women enjoy personal attention, breadth of curriculum, experiential learning and a commitment to serving others. Elizabethtown has been ranked for 12 consecutive years by “U.S. News and World Report” as one of the top comprehensive colleges in the North.
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