June 10, 2008 - USDA Receives "Closing the Circle" Award for Environmental Stewardship

June 3, 2008 - First Edition of DA's Energy News | PDF version (740Kb)

May 14, 2008 – USDA Designates 27 new Biobased Items for Federal Procurement

May 6, 2008 – Energy Policy TV, Executive News Roundtable, Interview with ASA Rutherford on the Federal BioPreferred Program

April 29, 2008 – USDA Wins White House “Closing the Circle Award” for Green Purchasing

April 25, 2008 - USDA Conducts First BioPreferred^SM Showcase at GSA Expo

March 2008 – Landscape Architecture Magazine Features Sustainable Landscaping Ideas for USDA Whitten Building on the National Mall – “USDA Prime Design.”

March 13, 2008 - Ten Simple Things to Reduce Our Environmental Foot Print

March 12, 2008 - USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Scientists Develop Break Thru Process for BioPlastic Manufacturing

March 5, 2008 - ASA Rutherford Addresses the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference (WIREC 2008)

February 5, 2008 - USDA Holds First BioPreferred Biobased Product Showcase

Commentary: "Agriculture Takes Lead on Biobased Purchases"

February 4, 2008 - "In Agriculture’s Cafeteria, everything’s organic" (PDF;875Kb)

February 1, 2008 - Greening the New Year (PDF;555Kb)

January 24, 2008 - ASA Rutherford Announces "Greening the New Year" Event

January 15, 2008 - The USDA Headquarters (HQ) Green Team unveils their new web site (located at www.usda.gov/da/HQs_GreenTeam/)

Dec. 31, 2007 - Here’s How We’re “Unplugging” -- At Our USDA Worksites – To Conserve Energy, USDA News (Vol. 66 No. 6) (PDF;338Kb)

December 19, 2007 - DA Implements New Duplex Policy (PDF;252Kb)

Fall 2007, Issue 44 - Closing the Circle News ; USDA E-Cycling Highlighted. See p. 18 (PDF;955Kb)

Nov. 30, 2007 - USDA Hosts Sustainable Landscape Conference (PDF;117Kb)

Nov. 20, 2007 - Results of "USDA Unplugged" (PDF;107Kb)

Nov. 19, 2007 - Forest Service Going Greener: Hosts Sustainable Operations Conference

Nov. 07, 2007 - USDA Leads Efforts to Streamline Procurement of Biobased Products

Oct. 03, 2007 - USDA Partners with DoE, HUD, EPA on Energy Star Campaign (PDF;181Kb)

Aug. 03, 2007 - APHIS National Veterinary Services Lab Wins 2007 Governor's Iowa Environmental Excellence Award (PDF;814 Kb)

Aug. 02, 2007 - Biobased Stakeholders Meeting (PDF;50Kb)

July 23, 2007 - Assistant USDA Secretary of Administration, Boyd Rutherford: Promoting energy efficiency – one light bulb at a time.