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Webinar - Busting the Myth of Recycling in Healthcare
Date: March 19, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET
Recycling is often seen as the primary solution to health care waste—but is it the most effective one?
Join the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care and CASCADES for a discussion that reframes recycling through the waste hierarchy and the lens of a circular economy. Speakers will explore how emissions accumulate across a product’s life cycle and why upstream interventions can deliver greater climate benefits.
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Webinar - A Hospital Pharmacy Framework for Climate Resilience in Canada
Date: March 23, 2026
Time: 9:00 AM PT/12:00 PM ET
Hospital pharmacies play a critical role in maintaining safe and reliable medication management in acute-care settings—but these systems are increasingly vulnerable to climate-related disruptions.
Join us to explore a new framework developed by the Canadian Association of Pharmacy for the Environment (CAPhE) that helps hospitals integrate climate adaptation and resilience into pharmacy operations.
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Webinar - Nix the Nitrous: Updates from the Field
Date: March 25, 2026
Time: 5:30 PM PT/7:30 PM ET
In this one-hour webinar, a partnership of the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care and CASCADES, experts in the field will provide exciting updates on the work of clinicians and sustainability champions across Canada to decommission nitrous oxide in hospitals at scale.
Join our speakers as they share key partners in this work, how they’re overcoming barriers, and insights from emerging research – as well as an exciting new Nix the Nitrous Recognition Initiative!
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New Guidebook - Implementation Guide for Dentistry
The purpose of this guidebook is to support dental offices across Canada in integrating sustainability into their daily operations, clinical practices, and long-term planning.
This guide was developed under the Preparing Canada’s Health Care Buildings for Net-Zero project, made possible with investment from the Government of Canada’s Low Carbon Economy Implementation Readiness Fund
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New National Membership Network - Join the Nourish Commons
Nourish
Nourish has launched a new national membership network. With your Nourish Commons membership, your organisation gains access to the full suite of Nourish programs, courses, tools, expertise, and networks so that you can fully leverage the power of food for health and well-being.
Join the Nourish Commons and gain a launchpad to transform your organisation’s food for health outcomes.
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Practising Wisely – Reducing Unnecessary Testing and Treatment
Choosing Wisely Canada
Date: May 27, 2026
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM ET
Location: Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, ON
Join Choosing Wisely for this interactive workshop, designed for primary care providers, to learn about overuse and overdiagnosis in practice. Throughout clinical cases, participants will explore various tools and find ways to create meaningful changes in their practice.
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Heat Pump Fundamentals For Property/Facility Managers
Toronto 2030 District
Date: May 26, 2026
Time: 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM ET
Location: Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, ON
This course provides Property and Building Facility Managers with essential knowledge on using heat pumps to support decarbonization in commercial buildings, business case development, and basic technical design considerations for operational management.
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Canadian Healthcare Construction Course
CHES
CHES is offering the only course in Canada designed to meet the unique needs of health care construction professionals.
Course sessions will address information on contemporary issues related to construction and renovation within the Canadian health care environment.
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Carbon dioxide overload, detected in human blood, suggests a potentially toxic atmosphere within 50 years
Springer Nature
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Anthropogenic activities are increasing the amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere. There is mounting experimental evidence that lifetime exposure to these increasing atmospheric CO2 levels can negatively impact the normal physiology of organisms.
However, directly assessing this in humans is very difficult. We analysed serum bicarbonate (HCO3−), calcium (Ca) and phosphorus (P) levels from the U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) from 1999 to 2020 as indirect proxies for atmospheric CO2 exposure.
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Narrative Review: A Model for Reduction of Health Care Carbon Emissions from Kidney Care
Canadian Journal of Kidney Health and Disease
Positioning patient-centred integrated care as a core strategy for sustainability and carbon mitigation. Rather than viewing sustainability as an add-on, we mapped person-centred integrated kidney care strategies in Alberta onto the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare's four principles of sustainable health care — prevention, patient self-care, lean service delivery, and low-carbon alternatives.
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Climate-Conscious Care in Action: How Hospitals Can Lead
Hospital News
Climate-conscious care is not an abstract sustainability target. It is a core element of high-quality, equitable health care in a warming world. By aligning care with patient goals, reducing low-value interventions, supporting aging in place and expanding integrated and virtual models, health systems can protect vulnerable populations while easing pressure on hospitals and reducing emissions.
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Society Success Spotlight: Addressing the Climate Impact of Inhalers
Choosing Wisely Canada
Climate change is a global health threat that will impact all of us. Dr. Geneviève Digby and Dr. Samir Gupta, respirologists, know that their patients will disproportionately feel that impact. As Chair of the CTS Choosing Wisely Canada Working group the pair sought to address this inequity and reduce the carbon footprint of respiratory medicine, by developing a climate-focused conversation aid for inhaler selection and conducting a community survey.
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Youth Reimagining a World Without Single-Use Plastics
Planetary Health Alliance
World Against Single Use Plastics (WASUP) is a youth-driven global movement tackling climate change, pollution, and planetary health through education, action, and advocacy.
Founded by Professor A. R. Gatrad OBE and powered by the UK charity Midland International Aid Trust, the initiative centres its mission on regenerating Earth’s natural systems—water, air, and soil—while preparing young people to lead a healthier, more sustainable future.
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What if clinicians prescribed a planetary health diet?
Physicians Association for Nutrition
The Planetary Health Diet (PHD), a plant-forward, culturally adaptable framework, prioritizes whole plant foods with reduced consumption of animal products to meet nutritional needs. PHD not only protects people and planet but also lowers costs, disease risks, and greenhouse gas emissions.
PAN International - Physicians Association for Nutrition provides resources to put PHD into practice, including an Action Brief, a factsheet, and a hub to help health care providers guide patients toward dietary choices that support Planetary Health.
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Encourage healthy eating on your campus
Physicians Association for Nutrition
The Physicians Association for Nutrition (PAN) offers funding opportunities for medical students to promote and serve whole food, plant-based food on their campuses around the globe. If you’re a student eager to promote the health benefits of plant-based meals – not to mention how great it can taste, PAN can help.
The Green Food Experience offers all the tools and resources you need to help friends and peers experience learn about the impact of nutrition on health and the environment.
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Newsweek ranks UHN's Toronto General the second-best hospital in the world
The Canadian Press
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An annual hospital ranking by Newsweek magazine has deemed Toronto General the second-best in the world.
The University Health Network (UHN) hospital has moved up a spot since last year, placing just behind Rochester, Minn.-based Mayo Clinic on the U.S. magazine's 2026 World’s Best Hospitals list Wednesday. Newsweek, in partnership with Statista, ranked 250 hospitals by surveying medical experts, compiling patient experience data and quality metrics for more than 2,500 hospitals across 32 countries, with the aim of informing patients.
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Harnessing Heat Pump Technology for Decarbonization
Date: March 24, 2026
Time: 10 AM - 11 AM ET
Join this live online session to explore the transformative role of heat pump technology in decarbonization. Speakers will move beyond the basics to explore how recent advancements in cold climate heat pumps allow for high-efficiency operation even in extreme temperatures.
Register here.
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Health Voices for Equitable Phaseout of Fossil Fuels
Date: March 31, 2026
Time: 3 PM ET - 4 PM ET
This timely discussion will bring together health leaders and civil society experts across diverse regions to discuss the urgent need for the health community to speak with one voice to renounce the continued expansion of the fossil fuel industry, for the sake of our patients, our climate, and future generations.
Register here.
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Climate Readiness in BC's Long-term Care Home Sector
Date: April 8, 2026
Time: 3 PM - 4 PM ET
This public webinar will share survey results of a recent survey on Climate Readiness in British Columbia's Long-term Care Home Sector. Speakers will also discuss practical recommendations for strengthening climate readiness across the sector with a focus on affiliated/contracted sites.
Register here.
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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. Learn more and register to donate HERE.
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