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The Green Guide for Health Care is a best practices guide for healthy and sustainable building design, construction, and operations for the healthcare industry. Download the Green Guide today!
Access and download a broad range of resources about sustainable healthcare design, construction and operations, and the pillars of 21st century healthcare: carbon neutral, water balanced, toxic free, zero waste, socially just, and aspirational. Cancer treatment centers built without materials linked to cancer. Pediatric clinics free of chemicals that trigger asthma. Health care facilities with fresh air and sunlight that reduce their carbon footprint. Hospitals that serve healthy food. Register your project today and begin your self-certification journey. Set your facility and operational goals and track your progress alongside healthcare peers. Register with the Green Guide and join the Green Guide Forum — our new web-based learning community. View our on-line case study library and resources specifically linked to healthcare design, construction and operations.
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The active part of the 2011 Operations Pilot program has concluded and data analysis from 65 participating healthcare facilities is underway. The OpsPilot Team is preparing a final report of findings. For more information, contact info@gghc.org.
The Green Guide leadership thanks all the speakers and support staff for a successful Green Design and Construction webinar series this year. We look forward to your continued participation.
The Green Guide JUN/JUL 2011Newsletter is online
The final issue of the Green Guide newsletter describes a decade of groundbreaking toolkit accomplishments, summarizes the exemplary efforts of the Food Group to advance healthcare greening, and acknowledges the generous support of a medical clinic in Massachusetts for providing office space to Senior Director Kumkum M. Dilwali. Click here to access the newsletter. Forward it to a friend. Interested in past newsletters? Click here for archives.
This healthcare-specific supplement, to be used along with the LEED Reference Guide for Green Building Design and Construction, includes information on the process for achieving LEED for Healthcare certification, detailed credit and prerequisite information, resources, and standards for the LEED for Healthcare 2009: New Construction and Major Renovations Green Building Rating System. Click here with promo code GREENGUIDE
Looking for a framework to organize your Healthy Food in Health Care (HFHC) work? The GGHC Food Service Credits have been designed to help you plan and organize your work, track your progress implementing sustainable initiatives, and quantify your sustainable work (i.e., dollars spent on local products or pounds of sustainable beef purchased). Click here for portal.
Do you have your FREE e-copy of the v2.2 Green Guide?
- Click to download the Design & Construction Section
- Click to download the Operations Section
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