The Green Hospital Project

In favour of greater connection to nature in healthcare, for the good of the planet and ourselves.

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

Why do hospitals host retailers selling endless plastic bottles, let alone their unhealthy contents? When you go to a health spa you usually see healthy products on sale. Hospital shops and canteens routinely promote trash #greennhs

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

@ClimateDad77 Very true

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

BP, Shell and the like, currently
- ramping up fossil fuel plans
- hiking prices
- making ever greater profits
Our PM says we shouldn't tax them more, as that would "discourage them from making the investments we want to see". Right..
https://t.co/kKo7fRYaLp

[Rupert Read 🌍 🔥 @GreenRupertRead]

This:

[DrLJ 💙 @drlaurajane]

Last night’s #panorama has really shocked people. There is no need to abuse cows. You can join the millions of us ditching #dairy for health, planet & ethics. Sign up for #Veganuary (any month) https://t.co/QmrYqVfex2 or @plantbasedhpuk 30day challenge. Always here to help! 💚

[DrLJ 💙 @drlaurajane]

There is so much potential for hospitals to learn from this evidence & put meals that support personal & planetary health at the top of our menus #plantbased #planetfriendly

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

And the 'super rich' are most of us reading this

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

The super rich are incompatible with our survival.

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

This is the kind of endemic mentality in our culture - profit, convenience and self preservation above all else- that needs to fundamentally change.
https://t.co/8nqzep2a5j

[Climate Dad @ClimateDad77]

At some point in the future you’ll give ANYTHING to be able to come back to this point, now, and do something about it.

#ClimateEmergency

[Greenpeace International @Greenpeace]

If only we had solutions to the #ClimateEmergency 🤔⁠
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Oh wait, we do!⁠ 🌱 ♻️ 💚

We must act now.
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Credit: @dinosandcomics & @rewritingextinction

[Green Health Wales @GreenHWales]

Desmond Tutu: We fought apartheid. Now climate change is our global enemy

“Once again, it is a global movement led by students and faith groups, along with hospitals”

| Climate crisis | The Guardian https://t.co/9hHxgC2Xyy

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

"We don’t prioritize the climate today. Our goal isn't to lower emissions. Our goal is to find solutions that allow us to continue life today. Of course you can ask “Can’t we have both?” But the uncomfortable truth is that we've left it too late for that."
https://t.co/WehPzxaGAR

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

Sustainable healthcare starts with sustaining health. It is inordinately resource/carbon/staff/money intensive to treat disease when so much could be prevented

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

Not only anaesthesia but all of healthcare..

[Ola Løkken Nordrum @OlaLN]

The waste produced from anaesthetic practice is unnecessarily large mainly due to inefficient packaging, generating excessive waste + making it difficult and time consuming to recycle as paper and plastic needs to be separated. @COAIrlsustain @IrishDocsEnv #sustainableAnaesthesia

[Tzeporah Berman @Tzeporah]

This summer I lived through the heat dome in Canada. Fearing for my relatives, trying to stay calm and breathe the searing air. Now on heels of #COP26 living through floods & landslides & towns being evacuated. I’m done.

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

@RevolutionZERO1 Amen

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

With stats like these, isn't it clear that we can't invent out way out. We need to urgently simplify our lives

[Greta Thunberg @GretaThunberg]

"The total emissions of the richest 10 percent alone are set to exceed the 1.5°C-aligned level in 2030, regardless of what the other 90 percent do" - study from @SEIresearch and @IEEP_eu

This is one of the many reasons why we need climate justice. #COP26
https://t.co/IuyQaXozTx

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

Likely true of many operations

[Richard Smith @Richard56]

The statistic from COP26 that has hit me hardest is that the carbon footprint of a cataract operation done by Aravind in India is 5% of that of one done in Britain. HUGE room for improvement.

[Peter Kalmus @ClimateHuman]

As a society, as a species, we must start doing the right thing instead of always just the profitable thing.

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

Spot on

[The Green Hospital Project @the_GHP_]

The @CocaCola company and its hundred of brands produce 3500 plastic bottles a second. More than 200,000 a minute. Most destined for landfill.
Until we boycot these corporations, our reusable coffee mugs and water bottles pale into insignificance