Todd Sack - My Green Doctor

How Green is Your Travel?

July 9, 2024 No Comments

Most of us love to travel. It adds spice to our lives, whether learning new ideas, discussing our research at medical meetings, creating friendships, encountering cultures, or visiting loved ones. But travel’s “dark side“ is its environmental cost: the carbon dioxide and other pollutants created from the fossil fuels burned for travel. My Green Doctor offers ways to calculate and reduce your travel carbon footprint.

More Than Refrigerators: Energy Star for the Entire Office & Home

April 15, 2024 No Comments

We all recognize the Energy Star logo on refrigerators and other appliances. Since 1992, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has awarded the Energy Star rating to products that are determined to be energy efficient in their class. What My Green Doctor readers …

“I’ll Be Joining an Environmentally Friendly Practice”

January 30, 2024 No Comments

Claim Your $7,500 Solar Tax Credit

September 24, 2023 No Comments

The U.S. Inflation Reduction Act signed into law in 2022 contains hundreds of billions of dollars to lower healthcare costs and to build roads, bridges, and public buildings. It also contains a huge tax credit for rooftop solar panels that every health professional and practice manager should consider for their home or business.

Learn the Health Risks of Gas Stoves

May 13, 2023 1 Comment

Gas stoves are a significant health risk. This is true especially for children and the elderly. People who live in homes with gas stoves have more asthma, lung disease, and cardiovascular issues. We explain here the risks and offer steps that families who live in a home with a gas stove can take for better health. You will learn why some health professional societies and governments are urging a switch to electricity for cooking.

PFAS: Toxic Chemicals To Understand & Avoid

November 16, 2022 2 Comments

PFAS chemicals seem to be everywhere these days: at the top of Mount Everest, in umbilical cord blood, in breast milk, and in the news. In 2022, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced new health advisories for PFAS in drinking water. My Green Doctor explains why PFAS are important and how your patients can avoid them.

The Environment & Healthcare: Do Our Choices Matter?

December 13, 2021 No Comments

World leaders are swarming to conferences to debate grand problems like COVID-19, poverty, inflation, trade, nuclear weapons, and climate change. Many health professionals who are not at these meetings ask whether the choices we make in own lives make any difference in the big picture. For the environment, there are questions such as,…

Axe the Fax: Save Money and Lower Your Climate Footprint

May 28, 2021 2 Comments

It’s time to takes steps to abandon your fax machines. Your healthcare practice can reap large savings by ridding yourself of this outdated technology. With some simple steps, most offices anywhere in the world today can dramatically lower their fax burden, and some can eliminate it altogether.

“Green Cleaning”: An Easy Guide for Homes & Offices

January 25, 2021 1 Comment

“Green Cleaning”: An Easy Guide for Homes & Offices “Green Cleaning” means keeping toxic chemicals out of your home and

Medscape Highlights My Green Doctor for Helping Healthcare “Go Green”

December 27, 2020 1 Comment

How You Can Save Money in Your Practice by Going Green Read Abigail Cukier’s December 2020 Medscape article: https://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/942979 “How

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