Clinics across Australia are working to reduce their ecological footprints. Click on the links below to learn what other clinics have done and the kinds of actions you can take:
Repower Health, a project to promote and enable solar power for health organisations: www.repowerhealth.org.au
Global Green and Healthy Hospitals, a network of large and small health organisations working to improve their sustainability: https://www.caha.org.au/globalgreen_healthyhospitals
North East Sustainability & Health Group, a network of clinics in north eastern Victoria: https://www.sustainabilityandhealth.com/
The North East Sustainability & Health Group have also published an energy audit for Benalla Church Street Surgery as a case study - downloadable pdf here
Green Practice, a network of doctors working to improve sustainability in their practice: http://www.greenpractice.org.au/
A Green Clinic Guide by the Australian Conservation Foundation and Doctors for the Environment Australia, to which Green Practice refers, and a 2006 article in Australian Family Physician (the journal of the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners) with similar suggestions
If you have any other resources you'd like to share with other managers of clinics working to improve their sustainability please email us at admin@healthyfutures.net.au and we can upload them to this page
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