Imagine you’re sitting in your doctor’s office. You’ve been feeling anxious, overwhelmed, maybe a bit disconnected. After listening carefully, your physician reaches for their prescription pad. But instead of writing a medication, they scribble something unexpected: “20 minutes of nature […]
Yearly archives: 2025
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Project Overview The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (CCGHC) is seeking 2–3 MBA student volunteers to support a strategic business review of the organization during the summer and early fall of 2025. As a recently approved charity with a […]
This narrative review discusses 19 initiatives that can be implemented into primary care practices to reduce GHG emissions and financial costs.
New framework guides climate-resilient acute care in Canada, with Alberta’s experience as a case study to support adaptation and continuous learning.
Addressing underuse in health care is key to sustainability—early, high-value care can cut carbon emissions and improve outcomes for patients and the planet.
This study depicts the estimated journey of a clonazepam pill’s production and distribution, with the prescription being filled in Vancouver, BC.
Primary care plays an integral role in the creation of a low-carbon health system, and the environmental consequences involved in medications is a prime example.
Combermere, Ontario, March 27, 2025 – The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (the Coalition) proudly marks the successful completion of the first year of the ‘Preparing Canada’s Health Care Buildings for Net-Zero’ project. Supported by the Government of Canada’s […]
Combermere, Ontario: February 21, 2025 – Canada’s premier green health care resource network, the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care, has launched a new initiative in its sustainable health arsenal to help Canada’s hospitals (and clinics) deal with the negative […]
Speaking at the GLOBExCHANGE conference on Wednesday, medical experts warned that as climate change worsens, hospitals and clinics are contributing to the problem. They are calling for a national strategy to decarbonize healthcare, ensuring that health facilities and supply chains reduce […]
A new national awareness campaign aims to help reduce and better reuse plastics in health care settings. The 3 year government-funded project is a collaboration between CCGHC and Hamilton Health Sciences.
Climate change is making us sick — and the healthcare system is exacerbating the problem. But new strategies suggest it’s possible to clean up our act.
21 janvier 2025 – La Coalition canadienne pour un système de santé écologiques (la Coalition), en collaboration avec Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS), lancera une nouvelle initiative nationale de sensibilisation à la réduction et à la réutilisation des plastiques dans les […]
January 21, 2025 –The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care (the Coalition), in collaboration with Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) will launch a new national awareness initiative to reduce and reuse plastics in health care settings. This three-year project is funded […]