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 View CleanMed 2006 Detailed Agenda View Green Building workshop Agenda View H2E award presentation and workshop Agenda View Healthy Food workshop AgendaOur Mission To accelerate the development, use, and diffusion of environmentally preferable products and the construction of green buildings in health care by disseminating examples of best practices and convening health care professionals, university researchers, designers of professional buildings, and vendors of cleaner and safer products. Our Goals  To provide examples of best practices in environmentally preferable purchasing from the U.S., Canada, and Europe. To address environmentally sustainable design practices and construction materials in healthcare. To discuss and evaluate initiatives to incorporate environmentally preferable purchasing in health care and group purchasing organizations. To showcase environmentally preferable and occupationally safer products and practices. To evaluate alternatives to medical waste incineration. |
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Topics Sustainable building materials Products free of mercury, latex, PVC, and DEHP Energy and water conservation Tools and resources for environmentally preferable purchasing Greener cleaners Integrated pest management Safer needle devices Recycling Managing pharmaceuticals Alternatives to incineration PBDEs: products in health care settings and alternatives Organic foods and health Keynote Speakers Tyrone Hayes, PhD - Professor of Developmental Endocrinology at the University of California, Berkeley renowned for his groundbreaking work on the herbicide atrazine's effects on frogs and the implications for human health, and a leading expert on endocrine research. Paul B. Hawken - Environmentalist, entrepreneur, journalist, and best-selling author whose books include "Natural Capitalism: Creating the Next Industrial Revolution" and "The Ecology of Commerce: A Declaration of Sustainability" |
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