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Energy efficiency: hospitals - for iPad/Mac/PC

by The Open University

What strategies can hospitals adopt to reduce their impact on the local and global environment? How might they reduce the carbon footprint of vehicles transporting patients, visitors and goods? This album visits three hospitals which have adopted green approaches to energy efficiency, by cutting electricity consumption, reducing traffic volume, and even generating their own renewable energy. This material forms part of The Open University course T206 Energy for a sustainable future.

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  1. Energy efficiency: hospitals

    A short introduction to this album

  2. The hospital as a transport hub

    How hospitals face unique organisational challenges as generators of lots of traffic.

  3. Hospital transport strategies

    Strategies aimed at limiting private car use at a UK hospital.

  4. Making hospital transport eco-friendly

    An Austrian hospital has revolutionised its goods and services transport systems as part of a wider environmental strategy.

  5. A green hospital

    A British hospital incorporates a range of forward-thinking ideas to cut its energy use by 40%.

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What strategies can hospitals adopt to reduce their impact on the local and global environment? How might they reduce the carbon footprint of vehicles transporting patients, visitors and goods? This album visits three hospitals which have adopted green approaches to energy efficiency, by cutting electricity consumption, reducing traffic volume, and even generating their own renewable energy. This material forms part of The Open University course T206 Energy for a sustainable future.

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