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Our Mission To accelerate the development, use, and diffusion of environmentally preferable products and the construction of green buildings in health care by convening health care professionals, university researchers, designers of professional buildings, and vendors of cleaner and safer products and disseminating examples of best practices.
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Keynote Speakers John Peterson Myers, Ph.D. -- United Nations Foundation and Co-author of Our Stolen Future Terry Collins, Ph.D. -- Professor of Chemistry at Carnegie Mellon University and recipient of the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge Academic Award Plenary Panels Implementing Environmentally Preferable Purchasing in GPOs Green by Design: Improving Health and Environment through Building Decisions Achieving the Goals of H2E: Progress AssessmentConcurrent Panels Sustainable building materials Save money by reducing waste Greener cleaners Integrated pest management Establishing environmentally preferable programs in health care Managing pharmaceuticals Food in health care: from antibiotics to composting Tools and resources for environmentally preferable purchasing Environmental implications of HIPAA and JCAHO compliance Products free of mercury, latex, PVC, and DEHP Energy and water conservation Alternatives to incineration Computers and the Environment |
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