1. Reducing your environmental footprint
Sustainability
Reducing your environmental footprint

3. Paper Only print what is absolutely necessary
Print double sided and 2 pages / sheet
For PowerPoint handouts, print at least 3 slides / sheet
Use app on tablet / phone to edit and annotate directly onto documents including pdf files (e.g. GoodReader)

4. Cycling All campuses have: Discounts at bike shops with Unicard
Bike pumps
Bike repair kits
Showers and lockers
Discounts at bike shops with Unicard

5. Bus

6. Train

7. 10% discount with a re-usable cup
Cups
Re-usuable cups available in cafeteria for £1!!!
10% discount with a re-usable cup

8. Climate change ~ public health

9. NHS carbon footprint 17% Building energy use 24% Procurement 59%
travel
17%
Building energy use 24%
Procurement
59%
Carbon footprint of NHS: 25% of all public sector carbon emissions; 4% of total carbon emissions in England
Slide 15: The NHS Carbon footprint
Key Points:
Ask the audience to guess what they think the NHS carbon footprint is: The answer is 21million tonnes of CO2 equivalent (based on 2007 data).
The average person in the UK has a carbon footprint of 9 tonnes per year. In China the average is 3 tonnes per year and in India only 1 tonne per year. The average American has a footprint of 20 tonnes per year (based on 2005 data). As we saw on slide 6 earlier we are using an unfair amount of the world’s resources.
The NHS footprint is made up of:
17% travel (e.g. patient, staff and visitor travel)
24% building energy use (e.g. heating, cooling, lighting)
59% procurement (buying of goods and services e.g. drugs, food, furniture, hospital supplies, medical equipment etc.)
Tips for the Facilitator:
You might like to ask if anyone knows what their own carbon footprint is, and then explain that you can also measure the carbon footprints of organisations or businesses.
This slide has custom animation so you may want to practice it - You could announce each of the areas (travel comes up on the first click, energy use on the second and procurement on the third) before bringing it up on the screen and ask the audience to guess what percentage each area makes up. They should be able to work the last one out!
Note: CO2e means ‘Carbon dioxide equivalent’ - As we mentioned earlier, there are six main greenhouse gases which cause climate change. Each gas has a different global warming potential. For simplicity, the mass of each gas emitted is commonly translated into a carbon dioxide equivalent (CO2e) amount so that the total impact from all sources can be added up to give one figure.
Source: NHS Carbon Reduction Strategy Update, NHS Sustainable Development Unit, 2010
NHS Sustainable Development Unit 2010

10. Sustainability of health care practice
sustainablehealthcare.org.uk
sduhealth.org.uk

11. Sustainability at the University
c-change campaign
NUS Green Impact programme
Green Week and Travel Week
Website for further info

12. School of Health Sciences Sustainability Special Interest Group
Group is open to all staff and students and aims to:
Establish sustainable teaching and learning
Embed sustainability within curriculum of courses
Enable research into sustainability in health and social care
Twitter @SustainSHSUoB
Website blogs.brighton.ac.uk/sustainabilityhealth