ABSTRACT
The goal of sustainability requires that Public seek to improve the quality of life in Public communities without depleting the many resources—social, economic, and environmental—on which all human activity depends. Sustainable procurement codes aim to promote practices that try to avert all paths to an environmental and/or social disaster while green procurement codes or green practices merely make an effort to be cognizant of the environment. The fact that many governments are now pondering sustainability issues may demonstrate that a shift has occurred in the traditional human-centric definition of community. Sustainable procurement stands to benefit from harmonization. In the US, a history exists of "uniform laws" and "model codes" that have been adopted throughout the states. Model Procurement Code will indeed be a sustainable procurement code and adopted by a majority of the states, following the path of other model codes.
