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Food Infrastructures for Planetary Health
This playbook aims to support informed decision-making related to foodinfrastructures for planetary health throughout the planning, design, construction and ongoing operation of Canadian healthcare facilities.
Playbook

Navigating biomedical waste management policies for sustainability
This playbook focuses on strategies to work effectively with biomedical waste management policies in order to reduce the environmental impact of both the waste itself and the processes required to manage it.
Playbook

A Reusables First Approach to Healthcare Procurement
This playbook provides background information, an overview of reusable opportunities in healthcare, as well as implementation resources and suggested strategies to adopt reusables at care sites.
Playbook

Virtual Care Carbon Accounting
To help organizations measure and maximize these benefits, the CASCADES Virtual Care Carbon Accounting Tool (VCCAT) supports the estimation of travel-related carbon and financial impacts associated with virtual and in-person care. Combined with thoughtful implementation strategies, equitable access planning, and sustainable technology practices, virtual care can play a meaningful role in building a lower-carbon healthcare system
Playbook

Greenhouse Gas Emissions Estimation in Canadian Healthcare
This playbook provides an overview of how GHG emissoins are measured in helathcare and information on the current state of GHG emsissions estimation in healthcare organizations across Canada.
Playbook

Strategic Planning for Planetary Health and Sustainable Care
This playbook identifies practices for incorporating climate change considerations and planetary health into organizational strategic plans to support the transition to sustainable, equitable health systems.
Playbook

Organizational Readiness for Sustainability
This playbook provides background information and implementation resources designed to address environmental sustainability in organizational readiness.
Playbook

Sustainability-Embedded Quality Improvement Toolkit
CASCADES
This SE-QI toolkit will help individuals and teams incorporate environmental sustainability into quality improvement (QI) initiatives, and envision how you can adjust, measure and report those impacts.
Tool

Sustainability-Embedded Quality Improvement (SE-QI) Toolkit : Train-the-Trainer
CASCADES
A slide deck introducing the SE-QI framework and toolkit.
Slide deck

Operationalizing healthcare sustainability at program level
This webinar explores how programmatic change initiatives connect high-level provincial strategy with frontline organizational action to advance sustainability in healthcare. It features sustainability leaders David Smith and Caroline Stigant, who share insights on operationalizing sustainability within clinical sectors, including surgical quality improvement, planetary health initiatives, and environmentally sustainable kidney care. The session is part of the Leadership and Strategy for Sustainable Health Systems series.
Webinar