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Version 8.1 of the RETScreen Clean Energy Management Software platform has been released with an array of new features. It is now available for download from the RETScreen website HERE.
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The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care is looking to hire a bilingual (ENG/FRE) Environmental Health Care Coordinator to join our PPE-mSUP project team. The successful candidate will work closely with the project lead to plan and implement outreach to French Canadian stakeholders. Please click HERE to view the full job description and application procedure.
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La Coalition canadienne pour un système de santé écologiques cherche à embaucher un coordonnateur bilingue (ENG/FRE) des soins de santé écologiques pour se joindre à l'équipe du projet PPE-mSUP. Le candidat retenu travaillera en étroite collaboration avec le chef du projet pour planifier et mettre en œuvre des activités de sensibilisation auprès des parties prenantes canadiennes françaises. Veuillez cliquer ICI pour consulter la description complète du poste et la procédure de candidature.
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2020 Green Hospital Scorecard (GHS) submissions due in four weeks
The 2020 GHS data call was made on July 28, 2021. This is a gentle reminder for participants to reach out if you require deadline extensions.
Missed our recent webinar for participants? Then click HERE to review the process details.
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Report: The health costs of climate
Canadian Institute for Climate Choices
Climate change is not just an environmental and economic threat. It’s also a threat to public health—and policy isn’t keeping up. This second report in the Costs of Climate Change series finds that the impacts of climate change on health could cost Canada’s health care system billions of dollars and reduce economic activity by tens of billions of dollars over the coming decades. Governments can save lives and minimize costs by investing proactively in measures that improve people’s health and security—particularly if they focus on addressing the root causes that put some people at greater risk.
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Green Teams Project
Our Green Team Project in collaboration with the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE) and University of Alberta graduate student, Joanna Law, created a national picture of green teams.
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Hamilton Health Sciences officially opens new stem cell facility
REMI Network
Hamilton Health Sciences’ Juravinski Hospital and Cancer Centre has officially opened a modernized stem cell unit to expedite high-quality cancer care for adult patients in Ontario. Expanded facilities at the Ron and Nancy Clark Stem Cell Transplantation and Cellular Therapies Unit include: 15 new impatient beds, so more than 75 additional patients can access blood cancer treatments every year; five new treatment bays for hospital day patients, which bring the total number of treatment bays to 35.
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Healthcare Excellence Canada and CCHL to offer a Health Leadership Specialty in long-term care
Canadian College of Health Leaders
In the current pandemic context, long-term care has never been more crucial. Through a new offering from CCHL, health leaders can pursue Health Leadership Specialties (HLS) and earn credit towards the newly minted CCHL Fellowship Select Program.
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The National Environmental Treasure is back with three new podcast episodes
Hosted by Professor Ann Dale, WHAT THE F*** IS BIODIVERSITY explores the incredible world of biodiversity, how it provides for us in our day-to-day lives and what we can all do to protect it now.
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PERSONAL PROTECTIVE EQUIPMENT |
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Study finds ‘serious difference’ in viability of different masks
REMI Network
A recent study from the University of Waterloo found the most common masks, primarily due to problems with fit, filter about 10 percent of exhaled aerosol droplets. The remaining aerosols are redirected, mostly out the top of the mask where it fits over the nose, and escape into the ambient air unfiltered. By contrast, higher-quality, more expensive N95 and KN95 masks filtered more than 50 percent of the exhaled aerosols that can accumulate indoors and spread the COVID-19 virus when inhaled by other people.
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Kruger Energy orders two Peterbilt electric semi-trailer trucks for Quebec fleet
Electric Autonomy
Kruger Energy, a Montreal-based developer and manager of renewable energy power plants, is taking a step towards sustainable transportation by purchasing a twin set of Peterbilt 579EV electric semi-trailer trucks that will begin delivering goods between Kruger facilities in Quebec by the end of this year. The trucks are Kruger Energy’s first electric vehicle order in Canada, says the company.
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A BIG thank you to SaveOnEnergy for their continued financial support for the Ontario Green Health Care Award and the Ontario Energy Behaviour Award.
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EVENTS, TRAINING AND WEBINARS |
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EcoHack-a-city: Public panel event and leadership training
The EcoHack-a-city Initiative, organized with the support of the TD Ready Commitment, is a fresh and inspiring series of five events being offered across different regions of Canada.
This event series combines both:
- A virtual public panel event that invites the members of the public to learn about local environmental issues concerning municipalities; and
- An online learning-by-doing training program that brings together municipal actors and representatives from business and civic society to find original solutions to an environmental challenge experienced by our cities.
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CHES 2021 Virtual Conference
The Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society (CHES) will be holding its 41st Annual Conference on a virtual platform on September 28-29, 2021. The theme of the 2021 Virtual Conference is “Enriching Patient Experience by Optimizing the Environment”.
For more detailed information or to register visit the CHES website. Find the program details HERE.
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Circular Procurement Summit
To engage the intersection of public and private sector interests to achieve and accelerate circularity, Circular Innovation Council presents Circular Procurement Summit 2021, an exclusive online learning and application experience and official World Circular Economy Forum Side Event.
From 18 - 22 October 2021 daily sessions from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. EDT (GMT-4) will explore cross-cutting themes that can be achieved simultaneously through circular procurement:
- Meeting carbon emission reduction objectives with a focus on net-zero embedded carbon and scope 3 emissions;
- Accelerating circularity in Canada through regional and local implementation with the public sector as a central focus;
- Resource conservation, protection, biodiversity, and circularity;
- Green economic recovery and resiliency in a post-covid setting;
- Social inclusion and equity; and
- Zero waste.
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CHES - 2021 Webinar series
12pm - 1pm EST
Wednesday November 17, 2021 - Roof Maintenance
Speaker: Ted Katsoris, B.Tech, BSS, CCCA
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SCISS – Webinaires 2021
12pm - 1pm EST
Mercredi 17 novembre 2021 - Entretien des toits
Orateur: Ted Katsoris, B.Tech, BSS, CCCA
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RETScreen is a Clean Energy Management Software system for energy efficiency, renewable energy and cogeneration project feasibility analysis as well as ongoing energy performance analysis.
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Have you registered as an organ donor?
Contact your local organ donation agency and speak to your family about your wishes. You have the power to save and transform lives.
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The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care is Canada’s premier green health care resource network, leading the evolution of green in Canada’s health sector as a national voice and catalyst for environmental change. www.greenhealthcare.ca
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Some articles referred to in the Digest make reference to services and/or product offerings from specific suppliers. The CCGHC recommends that readers research the service and product offerings available through a wider range of suppliers for comparison purposes and in keeping with public sector purchasing guidelines. These articles should not be interpreted as an endorsement of any product or service. |
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