Efforts to raise awareness about how Michigan Medicine and homes can improve the health of our planet continue every day. Below, find facts, figures and helpful tips on what organizations are doing to raise awareness and what each of us can do to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and the planet’s carbon footprint. please give me.
Khan Pavilion Positioned for LEED Certification
Michigan Medicine’s state-of-the-art patient care facility is currently being built with carbon neutrality and environmental sustainability in mind. D. Dunn and Betty Kahn’s Healthcare Pavilion is set to open in the fall of 2025, with environmental goals to achieve his LEED Platinum certification, the highest level of energy efficient design. The Kern Pavilion is expected to exceed the efficiency goals of the Michigan Energy Code by approximately 20%.
Here are some other exciting facts about the positive environmental impact the new hospital is planning.
Save energy and money at home!
There are several ways to reduce your home’s energy use. One easy way is to use LED bulbs, which use 90% less energy compared to incandescent bulbs. Reducing energy usage also reduces costs for consumers. Here are some other helpful tips:
throw away single-use plastic bottles
Americans send more than 38 billion plastic bottles to landfills each year, which is equivalent to 912 million gallons of oil. That means 1,500 plastic bottles are thrown away every second. To make matters worse, his 90% of the plastic bottles used aren’t even recycled and end up in landfills on Earth, where they stay and take about 1,000 years to decompose. .
Plastic bottles that don’t end up in landfills end up polluting our oceans, killing the environment, injuring and killing marine animals. considered to be covered.
Consider eating less meat
Food accounts for 10-30% of a household’s carbon footprint, and is typically higher in low-income households. In addition, meat accounts for nearly 60% of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions associated with all food production. To reduce your household’s impact on the environment, consider reducing your meat consumption and increasing your intake of plant-based foods if dietary restrictions allow.
Why should I recycle?
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Here are some items that UM Health recycles that you may not be aware of.
Stay tuned for upcoming headline articles and other communications on environmental sustainability and carbon neutral program initiatives and progress. In the meantime Environmental Stewardship website. If you have suggestions or ideas for how Michigan Medicine can more effectively address climate change, please email us at headlines@med.umich.edu.