Sustainability Resources

Resources for health facility green committees

Healthcare Without Harm
https://noharm.org/

Get your healthcare facility to join the Global Green and Healthy Hospitals network
https://www.greenhospitals.net/

Visit My Green Lab for a sustainable laboratory accreditation service
https://www.mygreenlab.org/

Contact the National Health Sustainability Office nhso@hse.ie
https://www.hse.ie/sustainability

Green Healthcare – Sustainability projects in Irish hospitals
https://greenhealthcare.ie/

Link in with the IDE Green Committee Network by contacting our Healthcare Sustainability working group coordinator: sustainablehealthcare@ide.ie

Inhalers and Carbon Footprint

The tool was developed by a respiratory multidisciplinary team. The project was titled “A Communication tool on inhalers and carbon footprint” and was funded by the Spark Innovation Programme. Thank you to all who contributed to this important resource.

Available for download here: Inhaler Toolkit

Other important resources on healthcare sustainability

“To walk through a forest uncharacteristically barren of snow in wintertime, or through a hospital ward dominated by older and chronically ill patients, is to witness two of the greatest challenges of our time: the degradation of the Earth’s ecosystems and the shift in human disease towards that driven by our lifestyles and our surroundings. Both challenges are inseparable: climate change, ecosystem destruction, massive losses in biodiversity, a warming ocean, soil degradation, and pollution are wreaking havoc on our planet and sickening us.”
Lancet Global Health – Human health and environmental sustainability: the 21st century’s grand challenges