Human Innovation When we focus our efforts, we can make it better.

I have a new blog post up about sustainability in healthcare, and how I try to hold on to hope by remembering how innovative we are.

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Proud to be a part of this study! @leorahorwitzmd.bsky.social

Three graphs titled 'A ED-1 and ED-2', 'B ED-1', and 'C ED-2', showing odds ratio vs. heat index in °F. Odds ratio ranges from 0.8 to 1.2, heat index from 50 to 100. Each graph plots a curve with shaded area indicating confidence interval.

Among adults aged ≥65 years, higher emergency department use during summer heat was observed in an urban safety-net hospital serving socioeconomically vulnerable groups, indicating that #ExtremeHeat impacts are not captured by citywide advisories.

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Life Cycle Assessment Boot Camp Professionals interested in healthcare sustainability will learn to complete a life cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify the environmental emissions from medical devices and procedures.

Working in healthcare? Want to learn how to do a life cycle assessment?

#ColumbiaSHARP registration has opened for our virtual 4-day #LifeCycleAssessment Boot Camp August 13-14 & October 1-2. Individuals and teams with project ideas are welcome!

Early bird rates: publichealth.columbia.edu/LCA

There’s a lot to unpack when it comes to federal climate action—from silencing science to disregarding the health impacts. We can respond by making it personal and local, building collaborations, and sharing our stories.

“We’re all in this fight together.” #OPOH26

Amazing idea and thanks for the hashtag! Now if I only had time to knit!

The Clinician’s Pocket Guide to Eco-Vet Vendors Many doctors, nurses, and other clinicians come to us, asking what they can do to work on sustainability. Communication is critical for building more sustainable systems. Having attended a few medi…

I am looking forward to learning and growing at Our Planet, Our Health this weekend!

For those of you also attending (medical) conferences, who are also concerned about climate change, don't forget to take along this Pocket Guide to the vendor area! clinicallysustainable.org/the-clinicia...

my takeaway from climate week nyc is that "climate storytelling" is a little too much "we must reimagine our deepest souls in relationship to mother nature and the moral abyss of the polycrisis into which we must now stare" and not enough "ok but get a heat pump"

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Are you a US-based healthcare leader - or aspiring leader - hoping to guide decarbonization policy, strategy, and implementation in your healthcare system? Apply for our year-long leadership training and decarbonization action program: the Sustainable Healthcare Leadership Institute!

The Sustainable Healthcare Leadership Institute applications are open! GCCHE is recruiting mid- career pros to become sustainability leaders—combining tech skills, leadership training & a peer network to drive climate action aligned with quality, cost savings & mission. bit.ly/SHLI2025

The Internet Archive has to date downloaded 500 terabytes of US government websites, which it crawls at the end of every presidential term. The whole archive is fully searchable. This effort's housed by a donation-funded nonprofit, not a branch of the US government. blog.archive.org/2024/05/08/e...

Episode 4 of #SoClimatic features author and engineer Emi Nietfeld as we discuss #parenthood, #climatechange, #trauma, and #mentalhealth. We cover so much and it was such fun chatting with Emi! Check it out wherever you listen to your #podcasts, or here: creators.spotify.com/pod/show/cas...

So Climatic Podcast · Cassandra Thiel · Candid conversations about having children in a warming world. Join us as we explore the personal, ethical, and societal complexities of this decision. Guests share their j...

Another #podcast is out from #SoClimstic!

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Another clip from #SoClimatic Episode 3! Retired #wildlife #biologist Dick Thiel talks with me about his career studying #wolves and teaching about #nature. We're also talking about staying positive in the face of environmental degradation, and his decision to have kids (me! He's my dad.)

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#SoClimatic Episode 3 is out - we're talking with retired #wildlife #biologist Dick Thiel about his career studying #wolves and teaching about #nature. We're also talking about staying positive in the face of environmental degradation, and his decision to have kids (me! He's my dad.)

Episode 1: Will and Amanda: Wildfire, Parenthood, and Finding Resilience in a Changing World

Today we officially release Season 1 of the new podcast So Climatic. This was a pet project of sorts because, personally, I just needed to explore a tough topic - childbirth and parenthood during the climate crisis.

Check out the first official episode: open.spotify.com/show/66yIAwq...

Love and Guilt in the Anthropocene | Cassandra L Thiel | Substack As a sustainability researcher and advocate, its been hard to reconcile the things I love in life (traveling, children, meat) with what those things do to our planet. We can't give up yet, so I'm expl...

Here’s a new blog post for the new year:

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Sustainability work is challenging! But I can’t think of anything better..

A global plastics crisis linked to climate change, fossil fuels and harm to human health calls for healthcare to transition away from single-use plastics. We outline a sociotechnical system transformation approach across the plastics life cycle #Medsky #plastics jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Addressing what doesn’t work Analogies from an aging body

I guess my Substack is as good as anything to start sharing here?

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