The Canny* Buyer "Using Green purchasing in your business"

Case Studies

As part of the Canny Buyer initiative, eight case studies of organisations of different sizes in Scotland were undertaken. A full account of each case study with an introduction and summary of features that were associated with good practice can be accessed from here as an Adobe PDF file (232KB). A paper that summarises the case studies called “Buying Green – studies in the adoption of sustainable procurement in Scotland” by John Forster and Belinda Miller is also available as a pdf file from here (170KB). This paper is summarised as a PowerPoint presentation (2.8MB).

*Canny: "knowing, skilful, shrewd, lucky, careful in money matters, harmless"
[Chambers definition] summarises all the benefits of sustainable procurement