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Did you know the Coalition records all of our webinars?
You can access the webinar recordings on our YouTube channel or view the events page on our website to access the recordings and presentation slides!
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Primary Care stories motivate action to tackle the climate crisis
As the WHO marks World Health Day 2023, “an opportunity to motivate action to tackle the health challenges of today and tomorrow,” CASCADES is delighted to showcase stories of primary care teams across Canada who are taking action to tackle “the single biggest health threat facing humanity” through
environmentally sustainable practices.
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CASCADES Quality Improvement Playbook
CASCADES is excited to share the first playbook from their second annual cycle of sustainable innovations.
Training for better health outcomes: Integrating sustainability into health care Quality Improvement education provides ideas, examples and resources for facilitators, education leads, instructional designers and quality leads of health care based quality improvement (QI) programs to identify opportunities to incorporate principles of sustainability into new or existing QI courses, resources and
plans.
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Green Energy research opportunity with Centennial college
Centennial college has received NSERC funding to support applied research
projects in energy optimization and management. Any project with an applied-research emphasis or a feasibility study and a strong tie-in to energy usage
management and optimization is eligible.
Centennial has particular expertise in
integrating and evaluating solar and wind power installations, developing micro-grid systems, testing charge control systems such as energy storage devices and EV chargers, analyzing and optimizing HVAC systems, software and modelling energy usage.
For more information on this funding opportunity, please contact
WCkurshumova@centennialcollege.ca
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Summer Institute on Sustainable Health Systems
CASCADES, and its partners, will be offering the Summer Institute to trainees studying in Canada again in 2023. This year, we have expanded the number of in-person hub locations from 5 to 11 at universities across Canada representing eight provinces.
Through guided learning activities, meetings with local sustainability leaders and nation-wide panel discussions, the Summer Institute aims to develop trainee knowledge, leadership skills and capabilities, and build professional, interdisciplinary networks of trainees and professionals with shared interests.
Applications are being accepted until April 10, 2023.
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CHES - CALL for 2024 Webinar Series Topics
The CHES Webinar Sub-committee is seeking proposals for webinar topics for 2024. Presentations must be an educational benefit to all attendees, not an endorsement of products or services for which the presenter is a representative.
Please use the 2024 Webinar Call for Abstracts form to submit a topic for consideration for the CHES 2024 Webinar Series.
Deadline to Submit: May 19, 2023
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Get up to 50% back for Installing new EV charging stations
The Government of Canada has mandated that all new light-duty cars and passenger trucks are to be zero-emission by 2035. To help meet that goal, the Zero Emission Vehicle Infrastructure Program (ZEVIP) has been created to address a key barrier to the adoption of Electric Vehicles (EVs) in Canada. Namely, a distinct lack of charging stations.
Find out how your business or organisation can apply for incentives to be used toward the installation of new EV charging stations HERE.
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Release of RETScreen® Version 9.0
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Version 9 of the RETScreen® Clean Energy Management Software platform was released on October 13th, 2022 and is now available for download from the RETScreen website. This update has arrived with a number of salient new features to enhance the RETScreen experience!
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The missing tool in the climate fight
Stanford Social Innovation Review
Snatched from the jaws of defeat, the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) will hasten the transition of key markets—for energy, vehicles, cement, and more—toward “greener” technologies.
However, the IRA is just one early part of a massive, decades-long push to shift markets from high-carbon to low- and zero-carbon technologies. And while governments and private organisations have initiated transitions through a first wave of limited interventions, these market shifts are happening too slowly to reduce emissions at a pace that would limit warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius.
With the climate clock ticking, the time has come to launch a more expansive second wave of green market shaping. To understand what is possible, we can look to the field of global health.
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Climate change-accelerated ocean biodiversity loss & planetary health impacts
The Journal of Climate Change & Health
The planetary health impacts of climate change-induced ocean biodiversity loss are little understood. Based on a systematic literature review, researchers summarize how climate change-induced ocean warming, acidification, and deoxygenation affect ocean biodiversity and their resulting planetary health impacts.
These impacts on the planets’ natural and human systems include consequences for ecosystem services, food and nutrition security, human livelihoods, biomedical research, disaster risk management, and for organisms pathogenic to humans.
Understanding the causes and effects of climate change impacts on the ocean and its biodiversity and planetary health is crucial for taking preventive and sustainable actions.
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Decarbonizing health care
American Journal of Nursing
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Nurses and other health care providers are increasingly being identified as essential contributors to climate action. But what does it mean to decarbonize the health sector? And should this be prioritized amid other urgent issues, including an ongoing pandemic?
The answer is an emphatic yes, according to Donald Berwick, MD, MPP, president emeritus and senior fellow at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, who was the keynote speaker at “Nursing Leadership in Decarbonizing the U.S. Health Sector,” a policy dialogue hosted by the American Academy of Nursing's Expert Panel on Environmental and Public Health on January 20.
“There's a list of really urgent things going on now, none of which can be ignored,” he acknowledged.
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Food waste recovery partnership: A community-based health care story
Health Care Without Harm
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An innovative hospital-nonprofit partnership program is recovering thousands of pounds of food and getting it to the people who need it – while cutting costs and greenhouse gases.
The story of Davis Community Meals and Housing and Sutter Health in Davis, California shows what is possible when communities come together to find health-promoting solutions.
This film is part of Health Care Without Harm's “Partners in promoting health and equity: Stories of health care and community” series exploring a new answer to the question “what is community-based health care?” and the numerous benefits of programs like this one.
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Five electric buses to begin serving 15 St. Albert schools in 2024
Electric Autonomy
Five new electric school buses are coming to St. Albert, Alta., in a $2.9-million deal between the federal government and Highland Electric Fleets.
St. Albert joins Parkland County, near Edmonton, as the only city and municipal district in Alberta deploying electric school buses.
Roughly $1.34 million of the project’s financing will come from Infrastructure Canada’s Zero Emissions Transit Fund (ZETF). Notably, this is the first time the ZETF fund is being used to purchase electric school buses and related charging infrastructure.
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2023 EV charging networks report: Canada’s public charger installations grew 30 per cent since start of 2022
Electric Autonomy
The collective footprint of Canada’s public EV charging networks has grown by almost one-third since the start of 2022. This is according to national data collected by Electric Autonomy for our annual tally of public EV charger installations in Canada.
As of March 1, 2023, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) data shows another period of significant growth in Canada. EV drivers now have access to at least 20,478 charging ports located at 8,732 charging station locations across the country.
This growth in ports represents a 30 per cent increase since December 31, 2021.
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This new NYC hospital is designed to be hurricane-proof
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Ten years after Hurricane Sandy flooded the emergency room at the old Coney Island Hospital in Brooklyn, a new, climate-resilient hospital has been erected in its place.
Surrounded by scaffolding and construction equipment, the 11-story building that will be the Ruth Bader Ginsburg Hospital in the South Brooklyn Health campus is almost complete.
The hospital is about a 20-minute walk from nearby Brighton Beach—an area badly hit by the 2012 superstorm—and it’s the first new public hospital in the city since 1982.
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CHES Ontario Chapter Conference
This year, the theme is “Engineering for Sustainability and Resilience in Healthcare Facilities” where CHES has assembled a program that will assist their members’ everyday challenges with new and exciting information and products. Let’s learn together from the experts and the unique experience in Windsor, ON.
They expect over 75 exhibitors at the trade show and a variety of educational sessions offered over two days.
Dates: June 4th - 6th, 2023
Location: Caesars Windsor Convention Centre, Ontario
In honour of the new budget year, the ONLINE REGISTRATION pricing will be further reduced from April 1 to April 7.
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Food for Health Symposium
Mark your calendars, the second Nourish “Food for Health” Symposium is coming this fall!
This second symposium will be hosted by Nourish, in partnership with the Saskatchewan Health Authority (SHA) and CHEP Good Food, in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan.
This event will bring health care, community, Indigenous, government, business, philanthropic, and academic leaders together to explore the power of food in health care to improve patient and planetary health.
They will announce the registration through their newsletter, if you have not already, sign-up for the mailing list below!
Dates: September 19th - 22nd, 2023
Location: Saskatoon, SK
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International Congress for Academic Medicine
Registration is open for the International Congress on Academic Medicine (ICAM).
ICAM is the first international gathering dedicated to academic medicine. It will be the place for the academic medicine community to meet, network, and develop new relationships and collaborations with colleagues from around the world.
Dates: April 13th - April 18th, 2023
Location: Quebec City Convention Centre, Quebec City, Canada
Visit the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care at booth #317!
*Coalition partners and stakeholders are eligible for an exhibitors discount.
Email autumn@greenhealthcare.ca if interested.
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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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