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Climate Health Check

Just how bad is the climate change crisis and its impact on human health and the health of the planet? And what is the best way to get the message out about what can be done? At the 2013 CleanMed Conference in Oxford Prof. Hugh Montgomery brings his wide experience in the health service to […]

Greening the NHS

The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in Oxford has been running a programme called NHS Forest. It promotes the planting of tens of thousands of trees around UK hospitals and clinics – showing how green spaces can promote wellbeing and shorter recovery times.

Saving the NHS £1 Billion?

That’s the surprising claim made in a film we’ve just completed for the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare in Oxford to be shown at next week’s CleanMed conference. They’ve been pioneering new initiatives in sustainability, starting with kidney treatments and extending to other specialties like mental health.

Clash of the Greens

At a time when the urgency of tackling climate change is greater than ever, some environmentalists are thinking what was unthinkable – that we should now rely on nuclear power. Mark Lynas has a new feature film coming out, Pandora’s Promise, that aims to make the case with the public that our ideas about nuclear […]

Could Kerry Climate Speech be a Game-changer?

John Kerry Secretary of State @america Jakarta, Indonesia February 16, 2014   This is special. Ambassador Blake, thank you for doing this. Thank you all for coming here today. I want to welcome all of those of you who are tuning in elsewhere, some of you who are watching on a home webcast, and we’re […]

The dreadful cost of flying

MYTH: Since flying is responsible for only 5 percent of carbon emissions, I have the right to fly abroad on holiday. Don’t be fooled when airline representatives reassure people in the UK that flying creates ‘only’ five percent of our national carbon emissions, as if it is too small an amount for anyone to get […]

Possible Breakthrough

I went to a Solarsavers seminar yesterday in High Wycombe to discuss energy options with a number of suppliers. I had expected to be most interested in the solar water heating options. There were some good nuggets in the presentations: “the 19th was the century of coal, the 20th of oil and the 21st will […]