The Green Practice NewsJanuary 2025 https://mailchi.mp/mygreendoctor/start-2025-as-an-environmentally-sustainable-healthcare-practice In This Issue: Accelerate environmental sustainability in 2025! Make your public spaces more green
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.
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 …
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. …
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.
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 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.
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,…
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 “Green Cleaning” means keeping toxic chemicals out of your home and
