Healthcare
DOE Guide to Help Hospitals Achieve 50% Energy Savings
LED surgery lights, HVAC systems and improved facility design, among other technologies, can cut large hospitals’ energy costs in half, according to a Department ...
Abbott Sustainability Report: Three 2015 Targets Met Four Years Early
Global health care company Abbott Laboratories reached its 2015 goals for carbon dioxide emissions, water intake and waste output in 2011, while increasing year-on-year sales ...
Dignity Healthcare Taps Medline Industries for Dye-Free Plastic
Dignity Health has become the first health system in the U.S. to switch to dye-free patient plastics.
Under the new initiative, Dignity Health will replace everyday ...
Lighting and Sustainable Healthcare
Philips Lighting masterclass session at the NHS Sustainability Conference, February 2012.
Kaiser Permanente Targets 30% GHG Cut by 2020
Health care provider Kaiser Permanente has pledged to reduce its overall greenhouse gas emissions by 30 percent by 2020, compared to its 2008 levels.
Kaiser produced ...
Cardinal Health Shrinks Packaging By Folding Gloves
Cardinal Health says it has made its surgical glove packaging at least 30 percent smaller than competitors' tall packaging configurations, and used at least ...
Hospital Energy Management Tips
Ian Buckle discusses hospital energy management in this Energy Live News interview.
Standards & Compliance Briefing: Wine Standard, Energy Star Update, WEEE Recast
An international wine trade group has adopted a standard for calculating the industry's greenhouse gas emissions, Off License News reported. The International Organisation of Vine ...
NHS Supply Chain Cuts Delivery Distances, CO2
NHS Supply Chain, the outsourced procurement arm of the U.K.'s National Health Service, cut delivery distances from 11 million to 9.8 million miles ...
Schneider Inks Efficiency Contract with UNT Health Science Center
Schneider Electric has signed an $8.6 million contract extension to provide energy efficiency improvements to the the University of North Texas Health Science Center (pictured).
Upgrades to ...
Practice Greenhealth Launches Green Medical Procurement Tool
Practice Greenhealth has released version 1.0 of its Standardized Environmental Questions for Medical Products, which can be used to guide procurement of environmentally preferable medical products.
The ...
Hospitals Save $2.3m a Year with CHP Plants
Combined heat and power systems at Guy’s Hospital (pictured) and St. Thomas Hospital, both in London, are saving more than £1.5 million ($2.3 million) ...
Merck Cuts GHGs, Outlines Post-Merger Goals
Merck’s sales and acquisition-adjusted GHG emissions fell by six percent between 2009 and 2010, from 2.21 and 2.08, according to the company’s 2010 global corporate responsibility report, its first in accordance with GRI principles since ...
Sustainable Chemistry, Sustainable Healthcare, Sustainable Life
This is the third in a series of articles from the winners of the 2011 Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge ...
NHS to Assess Emissions of Procurement
The U.K.’s National Health Service has begun assessing the carbon footprint of health care procurement.
Many N.H.S. bodies already include environmental costs into their procurement decision making, ...
Inova Health System Discusses Sustainability Program
In part 1 of a two-part video, Seema Wadhwa, Sustainability Engineer for Inova Health System, talks about how INOVA started their ...
Bayer Saves 1m Gallons Through Water Reuse
Bayer HealthCare has saved more than a million gallons of water since January with a wastewater treatment system at its animal health division headquarters ...
Health Industry Group Launches Green Purchasing Program
The health industry is launching a common set of tools to ensure that environmentally preferred products are available and cost-competitive.
The tools for purchasers, ...
Pharma Sets Few Supply Chain Goals, Report Finds
Pharmaceutical companies are “all over the map” in terms of their environmental goals and transparency, but largely don't set targets for their supply ...
Johnson & Johnson Sets Goals for Carbon, Water, Waste, Renewables
Johnson & Johnson is targeting a 20 percent cut in facility CO2 emissions by 2020 and a 10 percent cut in water use ...
