Kent Waddington

Communications Director

Kent Waddington, a freelance environmental communicator is a founding member of the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care and currently holds the title of Communications Director.

An environmentalist since high school, Kent has spent much of the past twelve years engaged in helping members of the Canadian health services sector develop and adopt more environmentally responsible practices. For seven years he developed programme content and promotional materials for the Canadian government's Energy Innovators Initiative within the context of health care, as the Energy Efficiency Coordinator for the Canadian College of Health Service Executives. Throughout that time, he created sector-specific initiatives related to environmental sustainability including National Health Care Energy Efficiency Awareness Week, Energy Perspectives, the sector's first energy management newspaper, A Resource Guide for Energy Efficiency Awareness Champions, the CCHSE/OEE National Energy Management Award, and coordinated and assisted in the design and analysis of the first national research study to assess energy efficiency practices and awareness levels in the Canadian health services sector.

He has also developed materials and written for the Canadian Healthcare Engineering Society, the Canadian Council on Health Services Accreditation, and Natural Resources Canada's CBIP Programme. Kent continues to author newsletters, web content and develop Environmental Stewardship Initiative materials for one of Canada's largest professional services companies supporting health care sites across Canada. He has spoken on energy efficiency and the greening of hospitals at conferences across Canada and his writing and photography have appeared in local, national and foreign publications/websites including Healthcare Forum, Hospital News, Stride, Canadian Facility Management, C-ing, Air Canada's Enroute magazine, Subtance Magazine (UK), and the Canadian Council for Public-Private Partnerships.

Kent is also a research team associate with Royal Roads University's School of Environment and Sustainability and is a founding Board member of the National Environmental Treasure, a people's trust fund devoted to the exclusive funding of Canadian environmental organizations.