Edition 14 | March 17, 2022

Welcome to the Green Corner!

This newsletter will keep you updated with stories, challenges, resources and myth-busting information about how you can make more environmental sustainable choices.

Come learn how optimizing COPD and asthma care can greatly reduce greenhouse gas emissions. Join the over 98 attendees who have already signed up for this FREE 1-hour webinar accredited for 3 MainPro+ credits.

The webinar includes a fun quiz, two prizes, tools for change and an action plan builder.

All members of the health care team are invited.

DATES: 

• March 24, 2022, 8:00-9:00 a.m.
• March 30, 2022, 12:00-1:00 p.m.
• April 5, 2022, 8:00-9:00 p.m.

The Greater Hamilton Health Network is launching an Environmental Sustainability Community of Practice! This private, collaborative space is available to all those who work in healthcare within the Hamilton, Haldimand, and Niagara regions. If you are interested in sharing ideas, educational opportunities, successes, and resources for reducing the carbon footprint of healthcare, please email [email protected]! You will receive an email regarding registration when the Community is launched (est. April 2022).

Our very own Dr. Meghan Davis is joining the National Advisory Committee to help spread sustainable inhaler prescribing in primary care throughout Canada. Cascades (Creating a Sustainable Canadian Health System in a Climate Crisis) is a multi year capacity building initiative to address healthcare’s contribution to the climate crisis. The project is led by the University of Toronto’s Centre for Sustainable Health Systems with partnerships across Canada. One of CASCADE’s main areas of focus is metered dose inhalers. The HFHT Green Initiative can share what we have learned and the tools we have created.

Congratulations, Meghan!

Learn more about CASCADES.

Dr. Meghan Davis

Members of the Wawa FHT

"Change is never easy, and it often creates discord, but when people come together for the good of humanity and the Earth, we can accomplish great things."

- Dr. David Suzuki

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