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Dental Sustainability Scholars 2017-18, a year on...

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9 Sep 2018
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Sara Harford
A fantastic year on since starting as ‘Sustainable Dentistry Scholars’, the time has come for Darshini and I to hang up our scholar hats! This past year we have been supported by CSH and Health…
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The Role of Occupational Therapists in the NHS Forest

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30 Aug 2018
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Sam Eperson
Welcome to my farewell post as an OT Sustainability Volunteer! One of mymain projects recently has been writing a report looking at the role of occupational therapists within the NHS…
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Two upcoming SHE workshops

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29 Aug 2018
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Frances Mortimer
SHE is running 2 practical workshops on sustainable healthcare education this Autumn... Please do sign up yourselfand circulate the details to friends and colleagues. Sustainable Healthcare…
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Exploring the role of education in sustainable occupational therapy

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20 Aug 2018
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Jenny Rickard
Occupational therapy, with its holistic approach to problem-solving and ability to understand complex contextual factors, is in a position to play a critical role in framing issues around…
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#BookClub

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20 Aug 2018
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Sarah Walpole
Planetary Health Book Club Discussion The Planetary Health Alliance have a book club held online - you are welcome to join. The next book is Wayfinders, by Wade Davis, a discussion of…
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Greening vacant lots reduces depression in city dwellers

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15 Aug 2018
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Miguel de Seixas
Worth a read: https://penntoday.upenn.edu/news/greening-vacant-lots-reduces-depression-city-dwellers I like the simplicity with which hits the triple bottom line.
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Green Champions.

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13 Aug 2018
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Harriet Dean-Orange
Hi everyone. I am looking for information about Green Champions... Does your hospital or area of work have them. Who started the project? Do they get any Trust/employer funding for…
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World Ophthalmology Congress 2018: Masterclass in Environmental Sustainability

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19 Jul 2018
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Did you know that healthcare creates 10% of the carbon emissions in the US [1] , 7% of emissions in Australia [2] and 5% of the total national emission in the UK [3] ? “If the US health care sector…
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Dental Sustainability Video

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18 Jul 2018
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Darshini Ramasubbu
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TjSIci4JyNw&feature=youtu.be Creating a video showing how sustainability can be incorporated into dental practice was one of the projects Sara and I worked on this…
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First Sustainable Dentistry Conference: How did it go?

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13 Jul 2018
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Sara Harford
On the 29th June 2018the UK’s first Sustainable Dentistry conference: ‘Sustainable Dentistry- innovation and future proofing’ was held in London. This exciting event was hosted byHealth Education…