Go Meatless for Your Health and the Planet’s Why not “go meatless” for at least one day each week? Meatless Monday? Good nutrition means eating foods containing protein, along with a balance of carbohydrates, fats, vitamins and minerals. This is true for children and adults. But
Read more →Author’s Note: I think you’ll enjoy reading this 5 minute blog on ‘Ecotherapy”. At the end, you will read eight ideas for your office.
Read more →Our Health & Today’s Changing Climate: What We in Healthcare Can Do Laurie Kirkland, University of North Florida, MPH candidate, February 2016 The Earth’s climate is changing and already our health is threatened. This article offers a basic explanation of climate change, how climate threatens our
Read more →Environmental Sustainability: A Core Value Essential for Today’s Medical Office More than ever before, you need an environmentally sustainable office. This is because the skills that come with sustainability are the same skills that you need to thrive with the world’s current healthcare challenges: decision making by
Read more →New Video: Starting Your Successful Office Green Team, plus free CME My Green Doctor was a featured topic at the September 19, 2014 annual symposium of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health & the Environment at the Pew Charitable Trusts in Washington, DC. In this 30 minute
Read more →“Green Cleaning” means keeping toxic chemicals out of your office and home. Many societies have the dangerous attitude that proper cleaning means using lots of strong chemicals. This approach is not only wrong, it is also dangerous. My Green Doctor learned this at a recent lecture on
Read more →Is your practice missing Environmental Health? Here are 3 easy steps: It is easy to add environmental health to your medical practice, whether you are a Doctor, Nurse, Nurse Practitioner, Pharmacist, Manager, Generalist, Specialist, or Whateverist. But before I get to that, you might ask, “Why bother?”
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With summer vegetables and fruits here, why not sign up to receive a local food box? Your family can join a food box service or this can be a project to share in your doctor office. This is a fun, healthy, and convenient service that tens of
Read more →A 2010 survey reveals that most US companies now have some program in place to assess and improve their environmental practices. The survey found that three out of five employers (60 percent) are measuring their cost savings from environmental programs, up from 39 percent the year before,
Read more →Safe Soap: Cheaper & Greener by Avoiding Triclosan www.mygreendoctor.org Your office may be wasting money on anti-bacterial soaps, and also hurting your patients and the environment. We all want “clean”– our hands, bodies & the objects we touch. This has led us to buy cleaning products for
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