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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

Maximizing impact through external partnerships and networks
This webinar in the Leadership and strategy for sustainable health systems series is the fifth of seven events highlighting seven organizational practices to advance strategic planning for sustainable healthcare. These practices are presented in the upcoming CASCADES playbook Strategic Planning for Sustainable Healthcare. The series is organized in partnership with the with the University of British Columbia Sauder School of Business/Centre for Climate and Business Solutions, the Sandra Rotman Centre for Health Sector Strategy at the University of Toronto Rotman School of Management, Dalhousie University Faculty of Management, and other university partners
Webinar