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Kaiser Permanente

Kaiser Permanente Sees Big Benefits to Adopting LEED for Buildings

Kaiser Permanente Sees Big Benefits to Adopting LEED for Buildings

Six years ago, Kaiser Permanente signaled that the Oakland, California-based health care system would seek Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Gold certification for new construction of hospitals, large medical offices, and other major projects. Fast forward to today and they have five Platinum-certified buildings, 16 Gold-certified buildings, 13 ... Read more »
Two Kaiser Permanente Hospitals Achieve ISO 14001:2015 Conformance

Two Kaiser Permanente Hospitals Achieve ISO 14001:2015 Conformance

Two Kaiser Permanente hospitals in Southern California achieved full conformance with the ISO 14001:2015 environmental standard. The American healthcare provider aims to have all of their hospitals meet the standard by 2025. Kaiser Permanente Fontana and Ontario Hospitals became the first to reach conformance. The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) ... Read more »
Kaiser Permanente Purchases Renewable Energy, Aims for Carbon Neutrality

Kaiser Permanente Purchases Renewable Energy, Aims for Carbon Neutrality

Kaiser Permanente signed an agreement this week with NextEra Energy Resources to purchase 180 megawatts of solar and wind generation as well as battery storage capacity. The deal is expected to help the largest nonprofit integrated health care system in the United States reach its goal of being carbon neutral in 2020.
Can IT Help Companies Achieve ‘Net Positive’ Environmental Impact?

Can IT Help Companies Achieve ‘Net Positive’ Environmental Impact?

Kaiser Permanente switched to electronic medical records — and reduced transportation greenhouse gas emissions. This, according to the Center for Technology and Sustainability, is just one example of how technology can address environmental challenges. The center, a partnership between Business for Social Responsibility (BSR) and Dell, has published its first ... Read more »
Kaiser Permanente Hires NRG for 70MW Solar Parking-Lot Project

Kaiser Permanente Hires NRG for 70MW Solar Parking-Lot Project

Kaiser Permanente has contracted with NRG Renew to install as much as 70 MW of on-site solar at Kaiser facilities in California. The company says it wants to achieve the top ranking for on-site installed solar capacity among US healthcare companies. NRG Renew will implement a single-brand, multi-site distributed solar ... Read more »
Facebook, Other Major Firms to Buy Furniture Without Flame Retardant Chemicals

Facebook, Other Major Firms to Buy Furniture Without Flame Retardant Chemicals

Facebook, Autodesk and Dignity Health are among the major corporations and government purchasers that have signed a pledge to preferentially purchase furniture made without toxic flame retardant chemicals. The Center for Environmental Health organized the pledge and has also published a list of companies that sell office furniture made without ... Read more »
Energy Improvements Save Kaiser Permanente 6.9M kWh

Energy Improvements Save Kaiser Permanente 6.9M kWh

Energy Star has named Kaiser Permanente as a Low Carbon IT Champion. Kaiser took part in Energy Star’s Low Carbon IT Challenge campaign, which challenges companies nationwide to change the way they use their energy—specifically within their information technology equipment and data centers. By implementing a series of energy improvements, ... Read more »
Chemical Management Tool Launched

Chemical Management Tool Launched

Target, Staples, Kaiser Permanente and the US Green Building Council are among the organizations that joined together today to launch the Chemical Footprint Project, a metric for publicly benchmarking corporate chemicals management and profiling leadership companies. The CFP will enable purchasers to preferentially select suppliers and investors to integrate chemical risk ... Read more »
44 Firms Win EPA Supply Chain Awards

44 Firms Win EPA Supply Chain Awards

Frito-Lay, Kaiser Permanente, FedEx Express and DHL Express are among the 44 truck and multi-modal carriers to receive EPA awards for supply chain environmental and energy efficiency. The 2014 SmartWay Excellence Award winners are the program’s top environmental performers, setting benchmarks in how they move products and supplies, by transporting ... Read more »
Hospitals Stop Purchasing Furniture with Toxic Flame Retardants

Hospitals Stop Purchasing Furniture with Toxic Flame Retardants

Advocate Health Care, Beaumont Health System, Hackensack University Medical Center, and University Hospitals will stop purchasing furniture treated with toxic flame retardant chemicals. Combined, these four health systems represent 7,000 patient beds throughout Illinois, Michigan, New Jersey, and Ohio. Each of the systems will specify with their suppliers that upholstered ... Read more »


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