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The Environmental Stewardship Resource Guide:
Helping people make environmental stewardship choices in their everyday lives
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Environmental stewardship refers to how we make decisions every day to help the environment.

The Environmental Stewardship Resource Guide (ESRG) is designed to help people make decisions and adopt practices that benefit the environment, especially in the workplace.  Making environmental stewardship a choice in your everyday life helps the environment, satisfies legal requirements, promotes public health, and frequently yields economic benefits.

What you do depends on who you are.  Chose a category below to learn what you can do.

What You Need To Know Depends on Where You Are and What You Do. Explore the wheel to find out what you can do! If you do not have the ability to view the wheel navigation, then please refer to the button navigation at the bottom of the page. Purchaser and Bankcard Holders: Anyone in purchasing and acquisitions, or holding a federal bankcard. Program and Resource Managers: Anyone managing a program or overseeing staff and resources. Contract and Grant Managers: Anyone managing contracts and grants on regular bases. Facility and Fleet Managers: Anyone involved with maintaining a facility or fleet. Every Person: Any federal employee regardless of his or her role within the agency.

Environmental stewardship is:

  • A shared vision
  • A set of values, requirements, and actions
  • An economic necessity

Why practice environmental stewardship?

  • Protect people's health and the environment
  • Pollute less
  • Save valuable resources
  • Support an environmentally focused economy
  • Share and enhance environmental values
  • Comply with regulations and requirements

Environmental stewardship goals include:

  • Reduction of our environmental footprint
  • Sustained health of employees
  • Participation by every employee

Learn more about environmental stewardship.


About the Environmental Stewardship Resource Guide