The story of the Sambhavna Clinic, a non-profit holistic health clinic in Bhopal, India, built to treat those injured by the Union Carbide toxic gas release in 1984. enlarge video
Events
Here are some of the upcoming events that focus on issues addressed by HCWH. For more information, visit each event's website, and be sure to visit our work group issue pages (detailed on the left navigation bar).
CleanMed Conferences
Join us in Oxford from 17th to 19th September for CleanMed Europe, focusing this year on Sustainable Pathways to Healthcare. CleanMed Europe is the only European conference on sustainability within the health care sector, addressing the environmental impact of the health care sector on a local, regional, and global level. Hosted this year in the UK, The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare and Health Care Without Harm welcome you to Oxford for the fourth conference of its kind. We invite you to network with other professionals across the health and social care spectrum, discover new sustainable solutions for healthcare and develop your thinking about how your work can contribute to a sustainable future. Read more about the conference and register at www.CleanMedEurope.org.
Mark your calendars for CleanMed 2013 in the United States. The conference attracts key decision makers from across the health care supply chain, including health care providers, hospital CEOs, product vendors and manufacturers, major health care systems and the top Group Purchasing Organizations. CleanMed 2013 will take place April 24 to 26, 2013, in Boston, Massachusetts. Visit www.CleanMed.org for more information.
Key Resources
- Energy Impact Calculator
What are your facility's energy health impacts and costs? What can you do to improve them?

- Learn about Practice Greenhealth and the Healthcare Clean Energy Exchange
- Green Guide for Health Care Report:
A Prescriptive Path to Energy Efficiency for Hospitals
download report (pdf) read abstract (pdf) - Healthcare Energy Project Guidebook, designed to provide decision makers with knowledge about improving energy efficiency (pdf)

