Australia’s health care system accounts for 7% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions. Click on the button below that best describes you to learn more and take action.
Individual:
Our best opportunities to create positive change depend on our local situation. Sometimes the best source of useful information is someone in a similar situation to you. To get in touch and share information with other health care workers working to improve the sustainability of health care, please click here to join our Facebook group set up for this purpose. Or if you’d like to recommend any other information we could share on this page, please email us at [email protected] If you’re not on Facebook, and/or to receive news via email, please use the sign up form below
Private Clinic
Clinics across Australia are working to reduce their ecological footprints. Click on the links below to learn what other clinics have done and the kinds of actions you can take:
Repower Health, a project to promote and enable solar power for health organisations: www.repowerhealth.org.au
Global Green and Healthy Hospitals, a network of large and small health organisations working to improve their sustainability: https://www.caha.org.au/globalgreen_healthyhospitals
North East Sustainability & Health Group, a network of clinics in north eastern Victoria: https://www.sustainabilityandhealth.com/
The North East Sustainability & Health Group have also published an energy audit for Benalla Church Street Surgery as a case study – downloadable pdf here
Green Practice, a network of doctors working to improve sustainability in their practice: http://www.greenpractice.org.au/
A Green Clinic Guide by the Australian Conservation Foundation and Doctors for the Environment Australia, to which Green Practice refers, and a 2006 article in Australian Family Physician (the journal of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners) with similar suggestions
If you have any other resources you’d like to share with other managers of clinics working to improve their sustainability please email us at [email protected] and we can upload them to this page. Please also consider joining our Facebook group where individuals can share tips and ideas to improve sustainability in the health sector, and/or signing up below for email updates.
Hospital or Health Service
Hospitals and health services are strongly encouraged to join Global Green and Healthy Hospitals, a global network of organisations supporting each other to improve the sustainability of their operations: https://www.caha.org.au/globalgreen_healthyhospitals. To learn about the financial and environmental benefits of solar power please also visit our dedicated Repower Health website: http://www.repowerhealth.org.au/ Individuals please also consider joining our Facebook group of health care workers sharing tips and ideas on how to improve the sustainability of their practice, and/or signing up to the mailing list below. If you’d like to recommend any other information we could put on this page please email us at [email protected]