Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care

🌿 Hot off the press: The Green Digest! 🌿

Dive into this edition to register for upcoming webinars, learn about new resources, and read inspiring articles on #ClimateAction, #Leadership, and more!

🔗https://conta.cc/4lPaW1k

Cutting waste, cutting emissions - Hamilton Health Sciences Hamilton Health Sciences is taking a big bite out of greenhouse gas emissions by reducing food waste in a variety of ways.

Nourish #Coolfood member Hamilton Health Sciences shares its recipe for cutting #foodwaste & emissions. It's a powerful combination of measurement, relationship building, promising practices, and local #procurement. 🙌

Join the movement 👉 shorturl.at/rTZJH

#NourishLeadership

shorturl.at/9bu1c

Are you driving change at the intersection of health and climate? We want to hear from you! 💬

The ccghc, with @peachhealthon.bsky.social and the Hamilton Family Health Team are hosting a program during Toronto Climate Week | TOCW (Oct 1–3, 2025)

📝 Apply to be a speaker: conta.cc/4nZcfvP

CCGHC's “Preparing Canada’s Health Care Buildings for Net-Zero” team is proud to share Environmental Stewardship in Emergency Medicine: A roadmap for a more sustainable practice #Nurses4PlanetaryHealth @ccghc.bsky.social

Download a copy at:

EN: conta.cc/451zGx9
FR: conta.cc/3IqGyLG

🌱🚨Environmental Stewardship in Emergency Medicine is here! This new guidebook by @ccghc.bsky.social & @peachhealthon.bsky.social aims to help ED teams take action, right where it matters most. Helping to build greener, more resilient emergency care.
 
EN: conta.cc/451zGx9
FR: conta.cc/3IqGyLG

🚑🌡️ New guidebook alert!

Our “Preparing Canada’s Health Care Buildings for Net-Zero” team is proud to share Environmental Stewardship in Emergency Medicine: A roadmap for a more sustainable practice

EN: conta.cc/451zGx9
FR: conta.cc/3IqGyLG

On July 17, join POWER Wellbeing, the AFMC, and the CMA for a national webinar celebrating this achievement and exploring what’s next for sustainable health care in Canada 🌿.

Read the press release 📄 conta.cc/3FVhFaf
Register 📅 conta.cc/4jZZMVF

Challenge your clinic to lead in sustainability! 🌿

The 2025 Green Office Challenge questionnaire by @ccghc.bsky.social, @peachhealthon.bsky.social and Hamilton Family Health Team is open! — assess your impact, improve practices & compete for national recognition. 🏆

Start here: conta.cc/4n0sGrz

📣 Join us on July 17 for a national webinar hosted by POWER to celebrate this achievement and explore what’s next for climate and health leadership in Canada.

🔗 Register now: powerwellbeing.ca/webinar

🌱 Greening the Wards is here! This new guidebook by @ccghc.bsky.social empowers general internal medicine teams to lead climate action with evidence-based, low-carbon care strategies & real-world examples.

📘 Get your copy:
EN:https://conta.cc/44fyvc3
FR: conta.cc/3Gd8vFZ

Hot off the press from @ccghc.bsky.social! And with some great recommendations for how #healthcare teams can lead climate action with #food. 🥗🧄🥙🫘🧆

EN: conta.cc/44fyvc3
FR: conta.cc/3Gd8vFZ

#DeliciousClimateAction #CoolfoodPledge #BuyLocal #ClimateAction #SustainableMenus

🌿Greening the Wards – a new guidebook to support environmental stewardship in general internal medicine.

🌎 Sustainable, low-carbon care practices
🧠 Considerations for climate-vulnerable patients

📖 Download the
@ccghc.bsky.social
guide today:

EN: conta.cc/44fyvc3

FR: conta.cc/3Gd8vFZ

Challenge your clinic to lead in sustainable health care!🌿

The 2025 Green Office Challenge questionnaire by @ccghc.bsky.social, @peachhealthon.bsky.social & Hamilton Family Health Team is open! Assess your impact, improve practices & compete for national recognition.🏆

Start here: conta.cc/4n0sGrz

🌿 Calling all primary care practices! 🌿

The Green Office Challenge 2025 is live! Assess your clinic’s sustainability efforts & find new ways to go greener.

📥 Start now: conta.cc/4n0sGrz

@PEACH_HealthON @HP @HamiltonFHT

🌿 One month as a charity! 🎉
$5,000+ raised—thanks to you!

👉 Read our ED’s message here: conta.cc/3T0fkh6

---

🌿 Un mois comme organisme de bienfaisance! 🎉
5 000 $ et plus recueillis grâce à vous !

👉 Lisez le message de notre DG : conta.cc/3T0fkh6

#CharityLaunch #LancementOrganismeBienfaisance

🌿 Hot off the press: The Green Digest! 🌿

Dive into this edition to register for upcoming webinars, learn about new resources, and read inspiring articles on #ClimateAction, #Leadership, and more!

🔗 conta.cc/4n4sA1Z

🚨 100+ Canadian hospitals have eliminated desflurane—an expensive, super-polluting anesthetic gas—in a major climate & health win. 🏥 🌎

Lower emissions, same care, less cost.

📄 Press release : powerwellbeing.ca/press-releas...

📅 July 17: Celebrate & build what’s next → powerwellbeing.ca/webinar

💊 Next week, join CCGHC, @PEACH_HealthON, and CAPhE for an insightful dive into how Medication Use Evaluation (MUE) pharmacists are shaking up the status quo.

🗓️ June 24, 2025 at 12pm EST
🔗: conta.cc/4466YcX

Rewilding for recovery 🌱🏥
Over 45,000 trees, shrubs & grasses have been planted at Canadian hospitals via the Health Care Forest initiative—boosting healing, mental health & cutting carbon.
“Trees are a health-care ally.” —Dr. Myles Sergeant
@ccghc.bsky.social
🔗 conta.cc/446u5nQ

💊 Next week, join CCGHC, @peachhealthon.bsky.social and CAPhE for an insightful dive into how Medication Use Evaluation (MUE) pharmacists are shaking up the status quo—not by adding more to the mix, but by rethinking what’s already there.

🗓️ June 24, 2025 at 9am PST/12pm EST
🔗: conta.cc/4466YcX

🏥 Join CCGHC June 17 @ 12PM ET for a look inside an award-winning retrofit at Holy Family Hospital that cut carbon emissions by 75%!

Hear from the experts behind this IFHE “Best in World” project. @ccghc.bsky.social

🔗 Register: conta.cc/3ZSqUyv

📝 New Resource Alert! Checklist!🌿
Looking to take action on nitrous oxide emissions in your health care facility?

📋EN:https://conta.cc/3FLKk1j
📋FR:https://conta.cc/446a7KN

🏥 Join us June 17 @ 12PM ET for a look inside an award-winning retrofit at Holy Family Hospital that cut carbon emissions by 75%!

Hear from the experts behind this IFHE “Best in World” project.

🔗 Register: conta.cc/3ZSqUyv

Check out our two new resources to help address nitrous oxide leakage in health care facilities:

✅ Nitrous Oxide Toolkit: Central Supply System Deactivation Guideline
✅ Nix the Nitrous Checklist

Learn more and access the resources 👉https://greenhealthcare.ca/nix-the-nitrous/

💊 Medications are a hidden climate culprit—making up 61% of primary care emissions. From overprescribing to waste, it’s time to rethink how we prescribe. Sustainable choices = healthier people + planet 🌍

🔗Learn more: bit.ly/4jWIZmZ

#SustainableMedicine #ClimateAction #HealthcareSustainability

🌿Rheumatologists play a key role in building a more sustainable healthcare system. Whether in hospitals or private clinics, our daily choices—from supplies to energy use—shape our impact. This guidebook offers actionable steps to drive change.

🔗EN: conta.cc/4knPek7
🔗FR: conta.cc/3SkzZMz

🚨 New Academic Paper!
The Low-Carbon Fruit Tree for Primary Care 🌳🍑
Primary care teams can lead on climate action in health care.

✅ Cut GHGs
✅ Lower costs
✅ Prevent ER visits
✅ Boost patient & planetary health

📖 Read at: conta.cc/3FB9Oyn

@ccghc.bsky.social #nurses4planetaryhealth

New Academic Paper: The Low-Carbon Fruit Tree for Primary Care 🌳🍑

A newly published review outlines actionable initiatives to, reduce GHG emissions, lower health care costs, prevent hospitalizations, and improve patient and planetary health.

📖: conta.cc/3FB9Oyn

✨ Upcoming: Sustainable Investment Virtual Roundtable + Community of Practice Preview for Hospital Foundations

📅Date: Thursday, June 19, 2025
🕐Time: 1:30–2:30 PM ET
RSVP here 📍: conta.cc/4jmP7nx
Contact ari@greenhealthcare.ca for more info.

CCGHC’s Net-Zero team has dropped 2 new resources to help health care facilities tackle nitrous oxide leaks:

🔧 Deactivation Guideline
✅ Nix the Nitrous Checklist

Cut emissions, boost safety.
@ccghc.bsky.social

EN/FR: greenhealthcare.ca/nix-the-nitr...

#Nurses4PlanetaryHealth