I was asked to contribute a health-related article for a special Green Infrastructure themed edition of Town and Country Planning, the journal of the TCPA.
This is the outcome. It is driven largely…
In my final year as a GP trainee I undertook a sustainability scholarship and learned about sustainable healthcare. Applying this knowledge I ran a sustainability project in the GP surgery I was…
Dr. Stanley Blue from the University of Lancaster has been working with the DEMAND centre (www.demand.ac.uk) which studies the dynamics of energy, mobility and demand. He has been working at…
Hello! I am Makena Lohr and just wanted to briefly introduce myself as one of CSH’s two new interns for Autumn 2017. Liora Michlin and I started at CSH earlier this week and are pleased to have had a…
Nearly 1 in 4 people in England are classified as ‘inactive’, doing under 30 minutes of physical activity a week, and face the greatest risks to health as a result. The UK Chief Medical Officers…
As many NHS professionals will be aware the NHS has committed to reduce its carbon footprint in line with the Climate Change Act (2008) but, aside from ensuring that legislative targets are reached,…
As many NHS professionals will be aware the NHS has committed to reduce its carbon footprint in line with the Climate Change Act (2008) but, aside from ensuring that legislative targets are reached,…
Today CSH has launched the Green Nurse Network in collaboration with the Royal College of Nursing, the Faculty of Heath & Human Sciences at Plymouth University and Medact.
Nurses are the…
Remediating paper cup wastage in the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford – A summary
The Oxford University Student Consultancy, on behalf of Medact Oxford, consulted with consumers and providers of hot…
I recently attended a conference at the King’s Fund in London entitled ‘Social prescribing; from rhetoric to reality’. It was a great day with lots of interesting speakers sharing their views and…