http://www.environmentalleader.com Environmental Leader Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:49:07 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/hospital-energy-management-tips/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/hospital-energy-management-tips/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 14:45:33 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=68953 Ian Buckle discusses hospital energy management in this Energy Live News interview.]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2012/01/27/hospital-energy-management-tips/feed/ 1 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/08/standards-compliance-briefing-wine-standard-energy-star-update-weee-recast/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/08/standards-compliance-briefing-wine-standard-energy-star-update-weee-recast/#comments Tue, 08 Nov 2011 11:23:20 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=64870 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 & Wine said its greenhouse gas accounting protocol has two elements: a tool that allows companies to measure the greenhouse gases of their growing and producing activities and general guidance [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/11/08/standards-compliance-briefing-wine-standard-energy-star-update-weee-recast/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/31/nhs-supply-chain-cuts-delivery-distances-co2/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/31/nhs-supply-chain-cuts-delivery-distances-co2/#comments Mon, 31 Oct 2011 12:43:15 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=64382 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 last year, according to its annual sustainability report, Focus on Sustainability. In 2010 NHS Supply Chain cut carbon emissions from fleet vehicles by 16 percent compared with 2008, in tons of carbon [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/31/nhs-supply-chain-cuts-delivery-distances-co2/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/21/schneider-inks-efficiency-contract-with-unt-health-science-center/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/21/schneider-inks-efficiency-contract-with-unt-health-science-center/#comments Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:33:18 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=63934 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 the center’s lighting, mechanical systems, PC power management systems and windows will be included in the new contract, reports Electrical Marketing. The project guarantees annual energy savings of [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/21/schneider-inks-efficiency-contract-with-unt-health-science-center/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/14/practice-greenhealth-launches-green-medical-procurement-questions/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/14/practice-greenhealth-launches-green-medical-procurement-questions/#comments Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:02:21 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=63556 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 tool, which can be downloaded here, is intended to serve as a template with a common set of standardized questions on key environmentally preferable attributes of medical products. [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/14/practice-greenhealth-launches-green-medical-procurement-questions/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/03/hospitals-save-2-3m-a-year-with-chp-plants/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/03/hospitals-save-2-3m-a-year-with-chp-plants/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:34:48 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=62796 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) and almost 11,300 tons of CO2 a year. The hospitals, which together employ 10,000 people and serve more than 850,000 patients a year, used a £10 million grant from the Department [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/03/hospitals-save-2-3m-a-year-with-chp-plants/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/03/merck-cuts-ghgs-outlines-post-merger-goals/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/03/merck-cuts-ghgs-outlines-post-merger-goals/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 07:34:26 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=62771 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 its 2009 merger with Schering-Plough. The pharmaceutical firm reported that its total energy consumption fell from 27.5 to 25.7 MMBTU [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/10/03/merck-cuts-ghgs-outlines-post-merger-goals/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/29/sustainable-chemistry-sustainable-healthcare-sustainable-life/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/29/sustainable-chemistry-sustainable-healthcare-sustainable-life/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:35:58 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=62603 This is the third in a series of articles from the winners of the 2011 Dow Sustainability Innovation Student Challenge Awards. Read the first two here and here. What is sustainable chemistry or green chemistry? It is normally recognized as a chemical philosophy of designing environmentally friendly processes and minimizing waste or pollution. Biotechnology also [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/29/sustainable-chemistry-sustainable-healthcare-sustainable-life/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/29/nhs-to-assess-emissions-of-procurement/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/29/nhs-to-assess-emissions-of-procurement/#comments Thu, 29 Sep 2011 14:14:23 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=62596 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, but the new plan aims to look a “little deeper” into the carbon footprints embedded in the products they buy, an N.H.S. Sustainable Development Unit spokeswoman told the [...]]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/29/nhs-to-assess-emissions-of-procurement/feed/ 0 http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/14/inova-health-system-discusses-sustainability-program/ http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/14/inova-health-system-discusses-sustainability-program/#comments Wed, 14 Sep 2011 23:13:00 +0000 Environmental Leader http://www.environmentalleader.com/?p=61220 In part 1 of a two-part video, Seema Wadhwa, Sustainability Engineer for Inova Health System, talks about how INOVA started their sustainability program and made Going Green a part of their corporate culture. Part 2:]]> http://www.environmentalleader.com/2011/09/14/inova-health-system-discusses-sustainability-program/feed/ 0