Greening Health Care on Green Air Radio

Posted on August 11, 2008 by Matt Embrey in Media+Internet

There’s a lot of talk about sustainability in our personal lives and a lot of talk about greening up industry, but one area I haven’t heard a lot of green talk is health care. Our hospitals create create tons of waste, and deal with hazardous chemicals and biological materials making them a very important place to focus on sustainability. I heard a very interesting interview with Dr. Ted Schettler on Green Air Radio. Schettler is a Physician, the Science Advisor for the Health Care Without Harm campaign, and the Coordinator for the Collaborative on Health and the Environment’s Science Working Group.

He is one of the driving forces behind the new Green garde of hospital operations restructuring and shares with us some of the inner workings of this visionary and vital process…

Read, or listen to the whole interview here at Green Air Radio.