Tools and resources

Sample presentation

(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This presentation walks through climate and health community benefits. 

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Climate and Health PowerPoint Presentation

• Climate and Health
• Presentation
• Education

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…

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Best Practices in energy efficiency

• Best Practices
• Energy
• Energy Efficiency

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…

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Connecting climate and human health poster template

• Climate and Health
• Print Materials
• Poster
• Tool

Practice Greenhealth provides a template that can be edited to make a poster on climate and human health. Use the increasing levels of ozone smog and local data on asthma and respiratory disease to illustrate how climate and human health intersect.

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Sample email

• Climate and Health
• Community Benefit
• Toolkit

(Delivering community benefit: Climate and health toolkit) This is a sample email inviting community benefit collaboration.

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Sample community health needs assessment text

• Climate and Health
• Community Benefit
• Toolkit

(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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Webinar: Ecological designer's perspective on climate, health and landscaping

• Water
• Webinar
• Green Building
• Buildings

This webinar provides a review of the potential for environmental and human healing with landscape management with a case study from various ecosystem-based projects. Jacob Blue reviews some of the most recent research regarding the role nature plays in human health as well as explore opportunities for improving the ecological health and function of landscapes. Following that, we hear a case…

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Connecting the dots: Synergies with existing health care priorities

• Engaged Leadership
• Employee engagement

Environmental stewardship connects to population health, prevention, staff satisfaction, and performance excellence. Increasingly, health care leaders are connecting the dots and seeing that healthier food, for example, isn’t just about supporting local agriculture, but also about offering a single, programmatic focus connecting population health, community engagement, climate health, chemical…

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Gary Cohen and Robin Guenther present: Get started on climate and health

• Climate and Health
• Webinar
• Gary Cohen

Sponsored by the Health Care Climate Council, this webinar will introduce the three pillars of climate resilience - mitigation, adaptation, and leadership. Jon Utech from Cleveland Clinic will give a brief overview of the Health Care Climate Council and why Cleveland Clinic has developed a formal climate strategy and joined the Climate Council. Health Care Without Harm Co-founder Gary Cohen and…

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Addressing climate change in the health care setting

• Climate and Health
• Mitigation
• Health Care Without Harm
• Report

Health care’s response to climate change requires a multi-faceted, practical approach. This document provides several kinds of resources to help, including tips on getting started, potential mitigation programs in different sectors, and an outline of some of the many resources, model programs and guidelines available to help move the process forward.

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