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UCSF Health has continued to focus sustainability communication and events on waste, energy and carbon emissions. UCSF Health hosted the first Waste to Art competition<\/a>, open to the entire UCSF community. With 15 amazing entries, winners were selected by a distinguished group of judges and the UCSF community. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increasing support for climate mitigation and resilience work continues across the health enterprise through faculty and staff leadership in several ways. UCSF Health\u2019s first medical director of sustainability, Seema Gandhi, M.D.<\/a>, anesthesia clinical professor, led the clinical faculty and staff to support sustainability projects around waste, energy and emissions. The PeriOperative Sustainability Committee, led by Dr. Gandhi, focused on the elimination of the highest global warming anesthesia gas, reduced gas flow rate (p425)<\/a> and elimination of leak-prone nitrous oxide piping. Grants from the UC Carbon Neutrality Initiative and America\u2019s Essential Hospitals seek to expand the impact of Dr. Gandhi\u2019s work by funding a toolkit and blueprint from this initiative to share with all UC academic health centers and other health care organizations beyond UC.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Waste minimization and energy efficiency in the operating room are also current UCSF Health focus areas. UCSF Health is a member of a UC-wide collaboration of radiologists, Green Radiology, focusing on reducing emissions and waste. UCSF Health radiologists<\/a> and the Office of Sustainability have measured energy from medical imaging devices and intend to use this data to advocate for development of Energy Star ratings and to work with manufacturers to find opportunities for energy savings. Finally, the Climate Change and Mental Health Task Force<\/a> met with their national peers about the mental health impacts of climate change and provided resources for patients. <\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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UCSF Greening Project Will Link Park to Peak at Parnassus Heights<\/a><\/h3>\n

UCSF Health launched a Greening Parnassus Heights initiative to plant more street trees in the neighborhood surrounding campus to help increase the urban canopy and reduce the heat island effect made more deadly due to climate change. A community-based organization, to be selected through an RFP process, will engage nearby neighbors and plant the trees throughout the community, consistent with UCSF Health\u2019s Memorandum of Understanding with the city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n