WHEN Announces: 


 HEALTHCARE'S HARVEST:

Seeding Sustainability in Hospital Kitchens  

 

 Green Menu:   

 5 Hospital Chefs

 10 Recipes

 1 Professional Kitchen

 10 Ways to Define Sustainability

 Free Food Samples

 Certificates of Attendance

 

 Tuesday, October 5, 2010, 2 p.m.– 5 p.m.

 View the invitation here. 

Download registration form here. 

(Contact us for an emailed version.)

 

  Public Event 

Thanks for coming out to WHEN's video salon on July 22nd to view The Story of Cosmetics, by Annie Leonard and Free Range Graphics.  

 Shampoos, make-up, lotions...are your products safe and healthy?  

Missed it?  View the video here.  Then take action...click here to support introduced legislation that would phase out ingredients linked to cancer, birth defects and developmental harm.  

Download the sheet on ingredients to avoid by visiting our Tools page.

Thanks to SA VA for hosting (read their blog, "About Your Face") on the event.  SA VA is locally made, globally inspired, and community focused fashion.  

Philly Inquirer's Sandy Bauers' article about personal-care products.  Read it here.

 

Health Care Opportunities

1.  Sign the Pledge for Sustainable Foods in Health Care (see Program: Healthy Food in Health Care)

2.  Sign on in support of PAMTA, the Preservation of Antibiotics for Medical Treatment Act (see Programs: Food & Sustainability).

3.  Sign on to ensure safer products in healthcare in support to TSCA (see Programs: Health Care). 

4.  Receive free bassinet mattresses (size: 12.5" x 26.5" x 1.5" thick) for each bassinet in your hospital.   The waterproof mattress pads from Naturepedic are made of organic cotton, free of polyurethane foam, PBDEs, vinyl, phthalates (DINP, etc.) and are GREENGUARD certified.  They are easily cleanable with warm water and gentle soap/disinfectant.  They will be shipped free to your hospital  The free program is coordinated by Healthy Child Healthy World, a non-profit organization.  If interested, send name, hospital, shipping address, phone number, and number of bassinets you have through our Contact Us page.  We will forward all requests to the program on a weekly basis.  

5. Reduce Bottled Water sales (see Programs: Healthier Food for Healthier Communities).

6.  Join us for our 2nd Sustainable Food Cook Training for healthcare October 5th.  Have a recipe you'd like to share?  Send it to us.

7.  WHEN is facilitating the next PSI Pharmaceutical Source Reduction National Dialogue on October 19th.

8.  WHEN & the Center for Environmental Policy at ANSP are developing Environmental Health Nursing for Nurses on November 5th.