Chosen as one of Canada's Greenest Employers for 2009:
By Richard Yerema, Mediacorp Canada Inc. staff editor (Apr 16, 2009)
Some of the reasons why Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre was selected as one of Canada's Greenest Employers (2009):
recently launched an environmentally-focused newsletter (called Green Sunnybrook) and created a new Manager of Environmental Sustainability to oversee and plan the hospital's ongoing and future projects
launched its first "Earth Matters Showcase" event to highlight the hospital's current environmental initiatives, and to teach employees about environmentally-friendly activities they can undertake at work and at home
is currently in the midst of a $28 million facility renewal initiative, installing energy efficient lighting, upgrading heating and air conditioning systems, and adding state-of-the-art building automation systems -- with the aim of cutting greenhouse gas emissions by a projected 9,000 metric tons when complete
as part of its facility renewal program, the hospital announced the installation of an impressive solar photovoltaic array (the largest in the healthcare industry) that will be installed and architecturally-integrated into an existing structure
in response to feedback from anesthesiologists in 2004, the hospital installed anesthetic gas absorption technology to reduce (by 95%) the amount of waste gas released into the environment -- preventing the release of over 470 tonnes of CO2-equivalent gases into the atmosphere (which is about the equivalent of removing 150 cars from the road)
is currently developing a next-generation recycling program, which will include enhancements to its composting efforts
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