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(Transportation toolkit) The following checklist is an accumulation of transportation strategies gathered during a review of best transportation practices among Practice Greenhealth members, and via online, publicly sourced literature review. Practice Greenhealth would like to acknowledge and thank these organizations for sharing those resources. The checklist has been designed to provide a quick snapshot of strategies and opportunities to reduce hospital-related transportation greenhouse gas emissions.
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This is a guide to suggested environmental disclosure questions for construction and renovation design services.
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Questions to ask suppliers and to take into consideration when making purchasing decisions about non-dairy beverages.
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Use these suggested environmental considerations in your RFP’s or RFI’s as a way to evaluate supplier responses or guide decisions in the purchasing process.
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Questions to ask suppliers and to take into consideration when making purchasing decisions about fresh, canned, and frozen produce.
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Use one or more of the suggested environmental disclosure questions in your RFI/RFP to help inform your purchasing decisions around processed food.
Type: Resources
Questions to ask suppliers and to take into consideration when making purchasing decisions about oils and shortenings.
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Practice Greenhealth presents a guide to questions and issues to consider when assessing or purchasing cabinetry.
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Memo from the State of California informing its agencies that solar reflective colors (white, silver metallic and gold metallic) are now mandatory to order on all light-duty passenger vehicles unless specifically exempted. Studies have shown that darker colors can raise a vehicle’s cabin temperature significantly, thereby requiring greater use of the air conditioning system and increasing fuel consumption. Solar reflective colors require the engine’s air conditioning system to work less thereby reducing fuel consumption and associated emissions for every vehicle that is replaced with a solar… Read More
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(Less water toolkit) Stanford Hospital and clinics had been in the process of evaluating the renovation of the sterile processing department when they realized they could take a leadership role in water efficiency and select a solution that would give a significant amount of water back to the community. An upgrade to this equipment resulted in cost savings and a reduction in water consumption.
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