http://www.healinghealth.com/blog/archives/108 Susan Mazer's Blog Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:29:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.1 http://www.healinghealth.com/blog/archives/108#comment-20 Sara Marberry Mon, 29 Oct 2007 14:59:33 +0000 http://www.healinghealth.com/blog/archives/108#comment-20 If we all "vote with our feet" on this, we can make a difference! Require that anybody you do business with also practice environmental responsibility. The Global Health and Safety Initiative launched a few weeks by Kaiser Permanente, The Center for Health Design, Healthcare Without Harm, and a bunch of other hospital systems ago aims to get hospitals to go green by exercising their purchasing power and implementing environmentally-friendly building design and operational practices. If we all “vote with our feet” on this, we can make a difference! Require that anybody you do business with also practice environmental responsibility. The Global Health and Safety Initiative launched a few weeks by Kaiser Permanente, The Center for Health Design, Healthcare Without Harm, and a bunch of other hospital systems ago aims to get hospitals to go green by exercising their purchasing power and implementing environmentally-friendly building design and operational practices.

]]> http://www.healinghealth.com/blog/archives/108#comment-22 Steven Beach Tue, 20 Nov 2007 22:03:26 +0000 http://www.healinghealth.com/blog/archives/108#comment-22 If we are not focusing our energies on sustaining the environment, natural resources, relationships,(fill in the blank), in essence, we are quitting on them. Marketing gurus have done a masterful job in dumbing down and anesthetizing the American public into buying and believing whatever the flavor of the month is. Comittment, which has been turned into a dirty little four letter word, has been derailed by the runaway instant gratification and sense of entitlement express. I realize I am preaching to the choir, but we are all capable of reusing and refusing to be forced fed into a frenzied state of consumerism which has become the central fabric of America. May we all strive to conserve and preserve the gifts that have been bestowed upon us for the health, enjoyment and enrichment of future generations. If we are not focusing our energies on sustaining the environment, natural resources, relationships,(fill in the blank), in essence, we are quitting on them. Marketing gurus have done a masterful job in dumbing down and anesthetizing the American public into buying and believing whatever the flavor of the month is. Comittment, which has been turned into a dirty little four letter word, has been derailed by the runaway instant gratification and sense of entitlement express. I realize I am preaching to the choir, but we are all capable of reusing and refusing to be forced fed into a frenzied state of consumerism which has become the central fabric of America. May we all strive to conserve and preserve the gifts that have been bestowed upon us for the health, enjoyment and enrichment of future generations.

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