Today I am going to talk about my dear friends at the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care. I have been working with them as a volunteer for the last 12 years…as a student…as a young professional and now as a slightly grey professional. You know, you do find what you are looking for, and I was lucky to find the CCGHC. 
Not just an outstanding bunch of people to work with but so many important projects too. In 2013 we worked hard on energy efficiency, conservation and greenhouse gas reduction strategies for health care. We were the only group in Canada researching climate change resiliency and developed a useful tool kit for health care. We have collaborated extensively in the area of healthy food for health care, all the while building the greenest health care system in the world…yep the world!
We have always tried to collaborate across the country but this year we have hit the ground running. Chances are you haven’t heard but our new board was announced at the AGM on March 27, 2014 and we have representation from coast to coast , mostly health care but a little non profit, government and business membership too. Drum roll please…
- Mauricio Acosta, Lower Mainland Facilities Management, BC – Health care
- Allen Bridge, Alberta health Services, AB – Health care
- Reynold Peters, Southern Health-Sante Sud, MB – Health care
- Kady Cowan (aka: me), University Health Network, ON – Health care
- Ron Durocher, Windsor Regional Hospital, ON – Health care
- Jessica Heiss, The Ottawa Hospital, ON – Health care
- Jane Pryor, Capital District Health Authority, NS – Health care
- Kate Butler, FacilicorpNB, NB – Government
- Jerome Ribesse, Synergie Sante Environnement, QC – Non Profit
- JJ Knott, Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society, ON – Non Profit
- Peter Rowles, ICF Canada, ON – Business
We are going to be busy; enabling change makers to green health care in Canada; and making sure our main resource driver takes green savings and reinvests them back into green impact. Easy right?
Good thing the 11 of us are on board, so we can evenly distribute the (well earned) grey hairs among us.
Talkin' Trash With UHN 
Additionally, it is a joy and delight for the Canadian Nurses for Health and the Environment to also be on board with a new agreement with the Coalition that we signed earlier this year. I have also volunteered for the Coalition for a few years and they are the most dedicated, amazing, inspiring colleagues I am so fortunate to collaborate with including Kady,Ed, Kent and Linda. Kudos to an amazing small group of individuals who collectively are changing our world for the better.
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