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The Coolfood Pledge team provides members with guidance on developing a plan for serving more climate-friendly food while meeting other dining-related targets.
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[Plant-Forward Future] You are ready with delicious plant-forward dishes but will your customers buy them? The answer is yes – if they are marketed correctly. This easy five-step guide will help your team create appeal for menu items by focusing on key taste, sensory, nostalgia, and geographic descriptors to increase consumers’ desire for them.
Step #1 Describe
Start by listing the core ingredients that define your menu item.
Noodle bowl with peanut tofu: Fresh hand-pulled noodles, Thai tofu, and peanuts
Black bean veggie burger: house burger recipe, onions, Pop’s secret sauce,… Read More
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Bronson Healthcare,the largest employer in southwest Michigan, serves nearly two million meals per year. Bronson Healthcare has a goal to source 70 percent of their food locally.
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Suggested RFP/RFI questions for service contracts for foodservice distribution. There are suggested questions covering food, beverages and foodware as well the supplier's corporate environmental responsibility. Other questions may be considered.
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This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate variability and change. This framework has been designed in light of the increasing evidence of climate change and its associated health risks (1); global, regional and national policy mandates to protect population health (2);… Read More
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[Plant-Forward Future] Given that meat is often the most expensive product category for hospital food service departments, Johns Hopkins Hospital adopted a “less meat, better meat” strategy, first reducing by 15% the amount of meat they purchased overall in 2014 and then investing in purchasing healthier, more sustainably-produced meat products.
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(World Health Organization) This document presents the World Health Organization (WHO) Operational framework for building climate resilient health systems. The framework responds to the demand from Member States and partners for guidance on how the health sector and its operational basis in health systems can systematically and effectively address the challenges increasingly presented by climate variability and change. This framework has been designed in light of the increasing evidence of climate change and its associated health risks (1); global, regional … Read More
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Practice Greenhealth’s data, collected from hospitals across the country, will assist hospitals in identifying key sustainability program opportunities by benchmarking their own program’s performance. The data is divided into 10 components of health care environmental stewardship programs: leadership, waste, chemicals, greening the operating room, food, environmentally preferable purchasing, energy, water, climate, and green building.
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(Washington State Department of Transportation) As the employee transportation coordinator or onsite coordinator for your commute trip reduction (CTR) program, you already understand how important this program is to the employees you represent. The CTR survey is one of the most significant contributions toward growing and sustaining an effective, successful CTR program. The feedback from your coworkers—both CTR participants and non-participants alike—provides meaningful data that your employer relies on. It helps shape your organization’s policies and procedures. And it… Read More
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The Circles of Excellence recognize up to 10 of the highest performing hospitals for each individual category of environmental performance including Leadership, Waste, Chemicals, Greening the OR, Food, Environmentally Preferable Purchasing, Energy, Water, Climate, Green Building. Winners are selected based on the highest scores within that category while also meeting a set of threshold criteria. Learn more about each Circle of Excellence.
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Practice Greenhealth is the leading sustainable healthcare organization, delivering environmental solutions to more than 1,500 hospitals and health systems in the United States and Canada. Partnership opportunities include hospitals, health systems, community health organizations, NGOs, nonprofits, government, academic institutions, and the healthcare value chain.