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Aiming HighBy AMANDA SPAKEPHOTOGRAPHY By JAMES KEGLEYMartha Johnson, administrator of the General ServicesAdministration, has ambitious goals for environmentalsustainability: a 30 percent reduction in the agency’s totalgreenhouse gas emissions by 2020, and ultimately, a “zeroenvironmental footprint.” Johnson acknowledges this is anambitious goal, calling it “this generation’s moon shot.” Noother federal agency has taken on this super-sized slice ofthe green agenda.Johnson’s agency, like the federal government itself, uses astunning amount of energy. Government buildings, vehicles,computers, people and missions consume more energy than10 Leadership | CGI INITIATIVE FOR COLLABORATIVE GOVERNMENT | S P R I N G 2 0 11