Healthcare
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).
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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 ...
Sustainability in Health Care Management
Panel and discussion on sustainability in health care management.
Premier Healthcare Alliance Adds Group Buy for Wind Turbines
The Premier healthcare alliance has added wind power to its group buy program by offering discounts on wind turbines from Southwest Windpower of Flagstaff, Ariz.
The ...
TECO’s $377m Energy Upgrades Support Texas Medical Center
Promo video of Thermal Energy Corporation's (TECO) energy-saving expansion, its $377 million Master Plan Implementation Project, which supports the heating and ...
Abbott Labs Cuts CO2, Water, Waste
Abbott Laboratories cut its Scope 1 and 2 CO2e emissions by three percent in 2010, and its water intake rate by 9.7 percent, ...
Kaiser Says Electronic Health Records Lower CO2 Emissions
Kaiser Permanente, which operates the world’s largest private electronic health record, Kaiser Permanente HealthConnect, estimates that EHR could lower carbon dioxide emissions by as much ...
LifeBridge Health Engages Employees on Sustainability
Lionel Weeks, Vice President, Facilities, LifeBridge Health, shares advice on how you can foster a culture of sustainability within an organization. ...
