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Welcome to Issue 8, CRC NewsletterWe hope your summer is going well, the weather back East has been great for swimming. Over the summer, John Robinson, Lenore Newman and I have been working on a major research proposal on climate change adaptation and mitigation in B.C. and I encourage to go to our website and see the results of our preliminary scan of the province. I continue to experiment with using the internet for the forces of light, and have added a blog feature to the website. I am hoping our graduate students get involved as they are now the ones on the ground working to implement sustainable development in the private and public sectors. We have also just published one of the first scans of the hospital sector greening initiatives published today. With the help of my colleagues from Sustainability Solutions Group and Chris Stashok, our seventh CRC discussio paper includes key recommendations for future directions that could fundamentally transform the leadership role that hospitals could play in communities. Please enjoy the rest of your summer, read a fantastic book, The School of Essential Ingredients by Bauermeister (2009), and I leave you with this thought "We're all just ingredients. . .What matters is the grace with which you cook the meal". Ann Dale |
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Greening Canadian Hospitals - Discussion Paper Just ReleasedWith over 3000 hospitals, medical facilities and surgery centers found throughout Canada’s many communities, the health sector has tremendous impacts both on individual health and on their ecological, social and economic vitality. The sector’s unique requirements for health safety and security, and sterilization, however, influence the decisions hospitals make regarding the energy they consume and the waste they generate. See Appendix B for a simple solution for improving the cleanliness of hospital buildings through a chemical free cleaning system that is put into practice at Royal Roads University
Go to Google Docs to share your hospital's leading edge sustainability initiatives with us.
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CRC Blog - Views from the EdgeWe have added a blog to the CRC research site, /crc-blog. We will be actively blogging, discussing the latest news from our research as it is happening 'on the ground'. I would like to encourage all of our graduate students to share their experiences and expertise from the private and public sectors since their graduation, as well as practitioners across Canada, making our blog the 'bleeding edge' place to go to share problems, solutions and practical ways to make a difference. Bring your questions, and we will do our best to answer them with the best advice we have.
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