Our Resources & Toolkits
Network Greener
A Conference Emissions Calculator (beta version)
Interested in understanding the emissions associated with attending and/or hosting a conference? Access the Network Greener Calculator to estimate your conference attendance emissions whether attending in-person or via zoom. The toolkit was designed for both attendees, conference hosts (i.e., professional societies), and department leaders to understand the potential reduced impact of permitting attendance virtually, when appropriate, or allowing for hybrid conference models.
**Final calculator with published methodology to be released Winter 2024.**
Waste Audit Toolkit
Interested in performing a waste audit within your department? Access the Norcal Waste Audit Toolkit to get step-by-step instructions for completing an audit in your department or clinic. The toolkit was designed for a brachytherapy procedure but can be adapted to fit any speciality.
Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Conferences
Best practices for attendees and conference hosts.
Other Helpful Resources
Sustainability Quality Improvement
The Centre for Sustainable Healthcare, based in the UK, offers step-by-step guidance for completing a sustainability quality improvement project. Check out their resources here.
Organizations
- Health Care without Harm: an international organization that works to transform health care worldwide so that it reduces its environmental footprint, becomes a community anchor for sustainability and a leader in the global movement for environmental health and justice.
- Practice Greenhealth: a healthcare membership organization that provides information, tools, data, resources, and expert technical support on hospital sustainability initiatives.
- My Green Doctor: a practice management resource for healthcare clinics, offices, and outpatient centers on environmental sustainability and climate change.
- SF Physicians for Social Responsibility: A local advocacy network of physicians and other health professionals that promotes public policies centered around environmental health, nuclear weapons abolition, and social and racial justice.
- University of California Center for Climate, Health and Equity: A UCSF-based, cross-UC hub for climate and health research, healthcare sustainability, education, and policy.
- Medical Students for a Sustainable Future: A national network of medical students committed to climate action, with teams for advocacy, research, curriculum, and climate-smart healthcare.