GREEN DESIGN & CONSTRUCTION RESOURCES
Webinars and Videos

 

Practice Greenhealth/Green guide for health care Webinar Series

Green Guide for Health Care offers a webinar series on Green Design and Construction

The Green Guide co-sponsors a Green Building Webinar series with Practice Greenhealth. Webinars are available free-of charge to Practice Greenhealth members or Green Guide Partners and Friends or may be purchased individually from Practice Greenhealth. Past webinars are archived and available for download as .mp3 files. to Practice Greenhealth members.

• View the archive of past webinars here
• View the schedule of upcoming webinars here

Videos

We also provide links to relevant video broadcasts of lectures and presentations we believe will be of interest to our registrants.

Sustainable Communities "Creating Healthy Communities" from National Building Museum on Vimeo. Dr. Howard Frumkin, director, National Center for Environmental Health and the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, discusses how the built environment affects our health and presents new models for sustainable development, including Atlantic Station in Atlanta, Georgia, a former brownfield site.

For the Greener Good "Healthy Hospitals" from National Building Museum on Vimeo. Bob Eisenman, executive director, Global Health and Safety Initiative; Robin Guenther, architect and co-author of Sustainable Healthcare Architecture; Roger S. Ulrich, Ph.D., director, Center for Health Systems and Design, Texas A&M University; and moderator Joanne Silberner, health policy correspondent, National Public Radio discuss why a green hospital is a healthier one.

See Operations Resources: Webinars and Videos for additional videos.

A Healing Garden Grows in Bhopal

This 10-minute video, produced by Health Care Without Harm, chronicles the development of the Sambhavna Clinic, a sustainable building constructed in Bhopal, India.

The Story of Stuff

The Story of Stuff is a 20-minute, fast-paced, fact-filled look at the underside of our production and consumption patterns. The Story of Stuff exposes the connections between a huge number of environmental and social issues, and calls us together to create a more sustainable and just world. It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the stuff in your life your hospital!) forever. Coming soon: The Story of Electronics and The Story of Bottled Water.

Oregon Health and Science University: Center for Health and Healing

Rocky Mountain Institute/ Built Environment Team. This short video describes the first LEED® Platinum medical office and ambulatory surgery building.