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Changing waste to a commodity
• Identify your potential commodities (re-use, compost, recycling, take-back potential)
• Investigate community programs• Communicate with your colleagues• Negotiate with your suppliers / vendors
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Staff Commuting FootprintStaff Commuting Footprint34,000,000 km/yr
4,278,450 liters of fuel10,097,142 kg CO2This is equivalent to ¼ of the CO2 associated with all the utilities consumed by LHSC
700,000 trees are needed to absorb this CO2 !
700,000 trees are needed to absorb this CO2 !
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Transit• Alternatives to
Solo Drivers• Quebec: Allégo
subsidies for health institutions
• Car-pooling• Active
Transport• Car-sharing• Public
Transport• Combos!
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Nutrition• Local produce commitments
– Kaiser Permanente’s farmers markets
• Increased vegetarian menu and focus
• Composting – pilot project at Douglas Psychiatric
hospital
• Organic agriculture commitments– Catholic Healthcare West
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Ecological Practice• Low consumption medicine
– Nutrition– Exercise and physical therapies– smaller amounts of pharm at one time
(e.g NSAIDS.)
• Durable tools• Environmentally safe microbial
decontamination of surfaces– sodium hypochlorite)
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Ecological Purchasing
• Looks at General Environmental Management of Suppliers (e.g. ISO 14000, Eco Logo Program)
• Product Composition (heavy metals, reusable, recyclable components, etc)
• Manufacturing Processes/Practices (hazardous wastes?)
• Packaging and Distribution• Use and Service (off-gasing, leaching,
durability)• End of Use (Cradle to cradle)
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Toxics Reduction
• Mercury phase out• Lead and cadmium recycling and
ban• Computer reuse and recycling• Xylene, Formadehyde reduction • Low or Zero VOC finishes• Low toxicity, biodegradable
cleaning agents, microfibre systems
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Ecological Design: LEED created to accomplish the following:
* Define "green building" by establishing a common standard of measurement
* Promote integrated, whole-building design practices
* Recognize environmental leadership in the building industry
* Stimulate green competition
* Raise consumer awareness of green building benefits
* Transform the building market
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AlexAlex’’s Butterfly Gardens Butterfly Garden
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Ecological Design: LEED for Healthcare
system addresses six major areas:
* Sustainable sites
* Water efficiency
* Energy and atmosphere
* Materials and resources
* Indoor environmental quality
* Innovation and design process
LEED certified hospitals (Can):St. Paul's Hospital 9A Mental Health Unit (BC)Upper River Valley Hospital (NB)
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Go Green! (BOMA Best)
• Resources (waste reduction and recycling; site)
• Emissions, Effluents and Other Impacts
– air emissions; ozone depletion; water effluents, hazardous materials, hazardous products, health & safety
• Indoor Environment (indoor air, lighting, noise)
• Environmental Management
• Energy – energy consumption,
features, management, transportation
• Water (efficiency)
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ADVOCACY
Comprehensive EMS in hospitalsComprehensive EMS in hospitalsGreen purchasingGreen purchasing
Clean air measures/ IncentivesClean air measures/ IncentivesPhase-out of known/suspected toxicsPhase-out of known/suspected toxicsHealthy urban housing/communitiesHealthy urban housing/communitiesEcosystem/biodiversity preservationEcosystem/biodiversity preservationGreenhouse gas reduction measuresGreenhouse gas reduction measures
Renewable energy sourcesRenewable energy sources
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Conservation/Restoration
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Common Tools
• Healthcare Without Harm (www.noharm.org)• Green Guide for Health Care (www.gghc.org)• Hospitals for Healthy Environment
(www.h2e.org)• Practice Greenhealth• Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care
(www.ccghc.ca)• Synergie Santé Environnement
(www.synergiesanteenvironnement.org)
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Special thanks to the team at the the London Health Sciences
Centre
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In a decade Green Healthcare:
• From Oddity to Advantage• From Unknown to Desired• From Laughed-at to Legislated• From Qualitative to +Quantitative• From Internal to Communal• From Isolation to Network• From Dream to Urgency• From Effective to Powerful