Schneider Electric, a C2DS partner since 2013, organized the April 2015 webinar on "Sustainable healthcare facilities: what are the issues, what are the levers for action, what is the feedback for sustainable energy performance?" You can listen or listen again to the webinar in this article.
Agora 2015: the impact of climate change on human health
C2DS Agora 2015 focused on the health impacts of climate change.
Campaign "Which baby cosmetics for the maternity ward?"
In 2008, the C2DS studied the contents of baby gift sets offered to expectant mothers, and discovered a veritable toxic cocktail of substances, some of them classified as CMR, in the samples of cosmetics, baby bottles and other gifts given by brands to mothers for their babies.
Eco-pasturing, 100% natural maintenance with sheep
Hospitals in France are using... ecological mowers - sheep - to maintain their green spaces. The aim is to save money on the upkeep of green spaces, while helping to preserve certain species of sheep, such as the Ouessant or Solognot sheep, with the added bonus of lowering the establishment's overall CO² emissions.
Clinique Pasteur de Toulouse, the first regional company to receive the PNNS label
As part of the National Nutrition and Health Program (PNNS) rolled out in France by the Ministry of Health, local authorities and companies can receive a label for exemplary commitments and actions in the field of nutrition and physical activity.
A bonus for electric and hybrid vehicles
From April 1, 2015, it is possible to benefit from a bonus of up to 10,000 euros for the purchase or lease of an electric or hybrid vehicle over two years old, replacing an old diesel vehicle. An opportunity for healthcare and medico-social establishments? It certainly is. Electric and hybrid vehicles are particularly well-suited to healthcare professionals who travel a lot, over short distances: self-employed nurses, staff of large facilities, etc.
Plant trees to offset carbon emissions
In 2014, Primum Non Nocere© emitted 42 tonnes of CO2. These greenhouse gas emissions are mainly generated by the transport required for the agency's activity. It was therefore important for Primum to contribute to offsetting these greenhouse gas emissions through virtuous, local actions, pillars of the circular economy that we all owe it to ourselves to favor.
Fabrice Broutin, Healthcare Segment Manager, Schneider Electric France
Fabrice Broutin, healthcare segment manager, Schneider Electric France, talks about the healthcare sector's awakening to energy issues.
Integrating environmental considerations into the new construction of Almaviva Santé Group facilities
In 2013, the Clinique Juge took on the challenge of extending its outpatient department by more than 500 m2 in a short space of time, while minimizing environmental impact. The clinic's management, advised by a firm of architects, opted for a low-energy construction using solid wood panels pre-cut and assembled on site in record time (Bordeaux company).
Worm composting in rehabilitation centers in New Zealand
Composting with earthworms is a fantastic way to minimize food waste by turning your organic kitchen waste into nutrient-rich fertilizer for your plants and soils. Worms eat organic waste and turn it into liquid and solid fertilizer.
Laurent Setton, Senior Official for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Women's Rights.
Read the interview with Laurent Setton, Senior Official for Sustainable Development, Ministry of Social Affairs, Health and Women's Rights. He talks to us about sustainable development in the health and medico-social sector.
Recovering bio-waste in the Midi-Pyrénées region: 50 establishments take part in a collective initiative
Biowaste project selected in Midi-Pyrénées! Since January 2015, regulatory requirements concerning the sorting and recovery of biowaste have come into force for hospital and medico-social establishments producing at least 20 tonnes of this waste.
To help establishments assess their production, Requamip (Midi-Pyrénées Quality Network), in collaboration with Ademe and C2DS, have set up an 18-month collective action.
For a more colorful world of healthcare
Giving hope and comfort to all those who suffer and stay in hospital, to their families and carers, by offering them art: this is the mission set by the Foundation for Art in Hospitals, created in 1984 in the United States, which offers works of art to hospitals free of charge. The foundation's raison d'être is to make hospitals around the world beautiful places of healing.
Nature to "take patients out of their hospital and pathological context".
Creating links, supporting patients in a new way, promoting a plant heritage linked to therapeutic themes: these are the aims of an original ethnobotanical trail created as part of a partnership between the Hôpital d'Instruction des Armées Robert Picqué in Villenave d'Ornon (33) and INRA Bordeaux-Aquitaine. The site and report can be viewed via a link in this article.
London hospitals pool their warehouses
In the UK, the National Health Service (NHS) is one of England's largest employers and a major purchaser of goods and services, with a correspondingly huge carbon footprint of 18 million tonnes of CO2 per year. It has set itself an ambitious target: to reduce carbon emissions by 26% by 2020, by 80% by 2050 and, in the shorter term, by 10% from 2007 levels by 2015.
Interview with Marion Jaros, Office for Environmental Protection of the City of Vienna, Austria
Read the interview with Marion Jaros, representative of the Office for Environmental Protection of the City of Vienna in Austria. She tells us about the ÖkoKauf Wien sustainable purchasing program, which has created a database on disinfectants.
Good initiatives to reduce waste
Since 2008, C2DS has been investigating the contents of the boxes distributed in maternity wards, as the baby cosmetics samples offered may contain substances of concern. The Alès hospital and the Blois Polyclinic, among others, have also been concerned by another aspect of these maternity kits: the waste they generate.