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Introducing the Greening Health Care Sustainability Forum

Wednesday, May 30th, 2012.
Toronto

Learn and share with peers on energy savings in health care facilities. Meet with industry professionals and utility company representatives.

Learn your savings potential, and what to do with it!

There will also be a tour of some of the GTA's most innovative and energy efficient hospitals on Thursday, May 31st.

For more information, contact Brian Dundas, bdundas@trca.on.ca,
or download the Forum pdf here.

Greening Health Care Challenge

Recognizing the most energy efficient health care facilities in North America.

Across North America a growing number of hospitals are leading the effort to lower energy use and cut emissions. Hospitals are at the heart of every community, and should be the flagships of sustainability.

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Greening Health Care is the leading member-driven, performance-based, health care energy management collective in Canada. The program's 60 hospital sites across Canada are working together to improve energy and water efficiency and reduce solid waste generation. The program reduces costs, contributes to the health and well-being of communities and demonstrates the health care sector's commitment to fiscal and environmental responsibility.

Today there are tremendous pressures on Ontario's Health Care providers to cut costs, address energy shortages and operate more sustainably. Greening Health Care helps hospitals work together to improve energy and water efficiency and reduce solid waste generation.

The foundation of Greening Health Care is cooperation between member hospitals through:

Online energy performance management system,
Online action planning and benchmarking capabilities,
Sharing information and experience in workshops and webinars.

Hospitals in the Greening Health Care program are doing their part to reduce their energy use, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and create a healthier, more sustainable community.

For more details on the program you can download the two-page program flyer.

To register for the program please download and complete this registration form - 138KB .

To obtain further information please contact:

Brian Dundas
(416) 661-6600 ext. 5262
bdundas@trca.on.ca

Join and Be Eligible for the Greening Health Care Awards

Member recognition is a key component of Greening Health Care. Recognition raises profile, enhances organizational image with stakeholders, supports facility staff, and spurs further achievement and cost savings.

Greening Health Care offers two major awards annually:

5% Awards – recognition for member hospitals that achieve 5% in energy and or water savings in a given year, and
The GHC Leadership Award – recognizing one health care organization that has been a sector leader in energy and water efficiency over multiple years.

These awards are open to all members of the Greening Health Care Program.

Greening Health Care - Canada Wide

Greening Health Care is offered Canada wide – with quarterly two-hour webinar workshops available for hospitals unable to attend the full day workshops in person. These webinars have been well attended and well received by our members.

You won’t have to leave your desk to hear about the crucial energy and money saving information discussed by members, program sponsors, and regulators at the workshops.