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Sustainability staff at Carilion Clinic walk you through their journey to develop the health system’s first Scope 3 emissions inventory.
• Learn about all 15 categories of Scope 3 emissions and how to develop your organization’s Scope 3 emissions inventory by using the new Health Care Emissions Impact Calculator for facilities and health systems.
• Understand which Scope 3 categories are easier to reduce than others and the challenges to reducing Scope 3 emissions.
• Develop strategies and an action plan to reduce your organization’s Scope 3 emissions.
Gain a basic understanding of… Read More
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New Orleans is known for festivals and food. It is also known for a complicated recovery from Hurricane Katrina. At the time of the infamous storm’s landfall, there was one local LEED building. Fourteen years later, more than 1,000 stand in the city. While progress can be measured by the increased number of green buildings, the resilience of its people echoed a warning that fell silent to the public; climate change is real and we must address it in design and construction and ensure the built environment is compatible with the turbulency of the natural environment.
In the heart of New… Read More
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Hospitals and health care facilities of all sizes are investing in the value sustainability can bring to their organization by hiring staff position(s) or placing the responsibility on existing employees. Some programs start from the bottom up, as grassroots efforts, while others may start with middle to upper management. It’s important to understand the drivers or motivation for the decision and how your executive sponsor will support you. Is sustainability seen as an ethical issue and in alignment with the moral compass and mission of your health system and the health sector? Is… Read More
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Health care organizations nationwide are offering healthier menus, working with farmers to purchase locally and sustainably grown products, reducing the amount of meat they purchase and serve, and going beyond their walls to help meet the food needs of their community, all in an effort to support the health of their patients, staff, surrounding community and the environment.
Practice Greenhealth member hospitals are making these changes by engaging in activities that support the modeling of healthier, more sustainable food choices for patients, employees, and visitors.… Read More
Type: Resources
Here you will find guidance, resources, tools, and ways to engage with your peers and other stakeholders across the value chain to support your food journey and help achieve your organization’s priorities and goals.
The way our food is produced, processed, transported, consumed, and disposed of has profound impacts on individual, community, and planetary health. Hospitals and health systems across the country are achieving their organizational priorities by focusing on food-related initiatives.
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Core values for a better food system
These values… Read More
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Our guidance helps health care organizations achieve successful waste management programs or projects. Watch this training and use our standardized process for gathering the information necessary to design sustainable waste management solutions, optimize your project or program’s success, and develop a proposal for leadership buy-in.Successfully implementing a sustainable waste management program or project will require following a defined process. This process includes: Watch a training Watch the recorded training below to learn how to use the template and hear about… Read More
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Procurement touches every aspect of hospital operations. Collecting accurate information on the sustainability attributes and dollar spend of products and services that are purchased is an important element in measuring sustainable procurement success.
The applications require facility-specific data for supply chain. This may be challenging as most health care organizations have moved to system-wide procurement to best leverage their spend volume, and sometimes accessing site-specific volumes or spend is difficult. Where site-specific numbers are unavailable, Practice Greenhealth works… Read More
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This template provides one-size-fits-all guidance to help health care organizations achieve successful waste management programs or projects. It outlines a new, standardized process for gathering the information necessary to design sustainable waste management solutions, optimize your project or program’s success, and develop a proposal for leadership buy-in.
Successfully implementing a sustainable waste management program or project will require following a defined process. This process includes:
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Brian brings more than 20 years of IT experience working with nonprofits. He is responsible for managing, integrating, and developing solutions for Health Care Without Harm and Practice Greenhealth. His journey has been marked by a profound passion for open-source technologies, which he believes hold the key to driving positive social change. He is the co-author of “GeoServer Beginner’s Guide,” the first book for the GeoServer community that takes a zero-to-hero approach to embracing GeoServer to visually analyze, interpret, edit, and share interactive web-based maps. Brian enjoys kayak… Read More
Type: Staff
Thresa Pattee has served Practice Greenhealth as a member engagement manager since 2018 and as the food program coordinator for Healthy Food in Health Care and Practice Greenhealth for two years prior. Discover her favorite volunteer activity in her hometown of Bozeman, Mont., her not-so-secret talents, and how a stint in France led Thresa to her career in sustainability.
What is a cause (outside of work) that you feel most passionate about?
Teaching young children about food production and cooking. Each month, Montana has a featured Harvest of the Month product, which is promoted for use… Read More
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