GreenWeb Webinar Series

Canadian Coalition for Green HealthCare Announces the Green Health Care Webinar Series: GreenWeb

The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care is launching a series of Green Health Care webinars through our new program called the GreenWeb. The GreenWeb webinar series will help all green health care stakeholders accelerate their green health care initiatives. The schedule, speakers and topics for the GreenWeb will be announced in early March.

Coalition supporters that responded to our recent survey identified that webinars are of interest for the following reasons:

Not having to leave your desk		75%
No travel costs		83%
Saves time		83%
Learning about new initiatives and programmes		92%

GreenWeb: Local Food for Health Care

This webinar, the first in the GreenWeb series, took place on March 2nd. It focused on health care’s role in supporting healthy and sustainable food systems.

You can download the PowerPoint presentation (.pptx) used in this webinar by clicking here.

The webinar topics included:

Why local food is important to the health care sector
How health care can support local food systems
Summary of successful approaches for supporting local food for health care.

For further information on the Coalition’s work on local food in health care facilities, contact Brendan Wylie-Toal, Sustainable Food Manager, Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care at brendan@greenhealthcare.ca or 519.896.1345.

The Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Ontario Trillium Foundation, as well as the support of our partners.

The Ontario Trillium Foundation is an agency of the
Government of Ontario. La Fondation Trillium de l'Ontario
est un organisme du gouvernement de l'Ontario.