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(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This climate health summary tool is an Excel workbook designed to help health planning staff and community members develop quantitative indicators of the likely health impacts of climate change in their local area. These impacts are driven by rising temperatures, air pollution changes, more severe weather, and increased ticks and vectors related to changing habitats. Health consequences with disproportionate affects on vulnerable populations are also highlighted. The tool gives users a relatively easy and self-contained approach to… Read More
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Practice Greenhealth provides a presentation that can be used as a foundation for a discussion or community education event on climate and health. This slide deck is intended to give you a variety of slides that you can pull from, depending on your need. The slide deck goes through the background first: climate change science, health impacts of climate change, and different energy sources. Then it reviews the three pillars of climate health: mitigation, resilience, and leadership, along with tools for each of those solutions.
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Energy efficiency can enhance human health by reducing greenhouse gas emissions, improving outdoor air quality and decreasing acid rain. The energy needed to run commercial and industrial buildings in the United States produces 19 percent of U.S. carbon dioxide emissions, 12 percent of nitrogen oxides, and 25 percent of sulfur dioxide, at a cost of $110 billion a year.
The health care sector is in need of cost-effective solutions to address the rising cost of energy and the health implications of energy use. Once a facility has developed an energy baseline by tracking and measuring its… Read More
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(Employee engagement toolkit) Highlight the healthy environment champions within your organizations using this "my health matters" poster template. Simply download this document, customize with your organization's logo and employees' information, and save to a PDF to print.
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In an effort to assist in environmentally preferred purchasing (EPP) practices, the linked resource provides a sample letter that can be sent to suppliers with the RFI/RFP or upon receipt of responses to the RFI/RFP. It emphasizes the importance of environmentally preferred purchasing to your organization and conveys appreciation to the provider for answering EPP questions.
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Cascade Asset Management is a leading IT asset retirement service firm that assists enterprises and institutions with the secure and environmentally sound disposition of their technology assets. From time to time, they are asked by businesses and institutions for guidance on how they can put together a formal asset retirement and electronics recycling program that meets their needs and goals. Cascade responds to dozens of Requests for Proposals (RFP) each year, so they have put together this toolkit to help businesses develop an RFP for soliciting vendors. Please adapt it to your own needs…
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(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This resource includes sample climate change text and sample community resilience text for community health needs assessments.
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Highlight the less waste champions within your organization using this "It starts with us" poster template. Simply download this Microsoft Word document, customize with your organization's logo and employees' information, and save to a PDF to print.
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