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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.

Episodes

  1. 08/03/2010

    Energy efficiency: hospitals

    A short introduction to this album

    1 min

  2. 08/03/2010

    Transcript -- Energy efficiency: hospitals

    Transcript -- A short introduction to this album

  3. 01/06/2008 ·  VIDEO

    The hospital as a transport hub

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

    1 min

  4. 01/06/2008

    Transcript -- The hospital as a transport hub

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

  5. 01/06/2008 ·  VIDEO

    Hospital transport strategies

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

    12 min

  6. 01/06/2008

    Transcript -- Hospital transport strategies

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

  7. 15/05/2008 ·  VIDEO

    Making hospital transport eco-friendly

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

    8 min

  8. 15/05/2008

    Transcript -- Making hospital transport eco-friendly

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

  9. 15/05/2008 ·  VIDEO

    A green hospital

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

    6 min

  10. 15/05/2008

    Transcript -- A green hospital

    Transcript -- 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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