Community-built Kingston Protocol endorses sustainable procurement practices - Ratification of Protocol by participant organizations is next step

KINGSTON, ONT. / Nov. 6, 2008 – Enthused community partners left last week’s SEE Green Summit armed with a historic set of procurement principles – known as the Kingston Protocol – that will bring Kingston closer to its goal of becoming the most sustainable city in Canada.

Now the community delegates are bringing the Kingston Protocol back to their respective organizations for ratification.

“City Council is the body that will endorse and adopt the Kingston Protocol on behalf of the Corporation of the City of Kingston,” says Paul MacLatchy, the City’s Director of Strategy, Environment & Communications.  “We are extremely proud of and impressed by the great level of consensus and enormous enthusiasm demonstrated for this effort by all the community participants. This Protocol is truly a testament to the strength and unity of the Kingston community’s vision.”

The founding members of SEE Green are now busy developing the administrative tools that will allow the attraction and engagement of new signing partners from throughout the Kingston community to join the SEE Green Kingston sustainable purchasing network.

In the meantime, organizations can signal their interest in adopting the Kingston Protocol by sending an email to Tracy Carson, Marketing Coordinator of STANTIVE Technologies Group ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it ). STANTIVE helped organize the SEE Green Summit and has agreed to be the community’s point of contact for the Kingston Protocol. The full draft of the Protocol is available for review at www.seegreenkingston.com.

“We were inspired by the energy and trust that built between the organizations and are committed to working with the community to see this through to a success,” says Douglas Girvin, President of STANTIVE.

The Kingston Protocol affirms the commitment of its signing members to a set of principles that make sustainability the highest value when evaluating potential purchases. The Protocol, the first of its kind in Canada, also outlines the intention of its signing members to pursue organizational efforts in support of the social/cultural, environmental and economic sustainability and endorses leveraging community collaboration to further enhance these efforts. 

Participants and co-hosts of this first summit included: the City of Kingston, Queen’s University, STANTIVE Technologies Group, the Radisson Hotel, DuPont Canada, PrintFusion, DM-C Bespoke Business Communications and AquaTerra by Clark Restaurbistro.

Media contact: For more information contact Linda Ross, STANTIVE Technologies Group, 613-887-2604. Or call the City of Kingston’s media hotline at 613-546-4291, ext. 2300.

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