Is toxic air pollution happening near you?

Right now, the NSW Government is reviewing the pollution licences for coal-fired power stations. The Eraring, Vales Point and Mt Piper power stations are some of the state’s biggest sources of air pollution. By installing readily available pollution controls, generators can reduce emissions of sulfur dioxide, oxides of nitrogen and mercury by as much as […]

Podcasts: Sustainable Health Care forum April 2016

Podcasts from the forum Working Towards a Sustainable Health Care Future April 2016. The Green Team – Suzanne Moujalli & Mahmoud Chatila Southern Cross Care Michelle Skrivanic and Alison Brannelly Sustaining Recycling In Health Care Systems Matt Power (St Vincents) Plastics: Weapons Of Mass Destruction Chris Hill (Mater Hospital Brisbane) Engagement Patricia Schwerdtle from Monash University A Time […]

Environmental Health Forum 15 April

NSWNMA in conjunction with RPAH and Sydney LHD is holding a seminar on Environmentally Sustainable Practice on Friday 15 April, at RPA, Camperdown. Download the Environmental Health Seminar flyer – Register online.

People’s Climate March

As world leaders meet in Paris for the United Nations climate summit, we will gather in Australian cities and walk alongside millions of people in hundreds of major cities around the world. By coming together we can show that our government is out of step with the Australian community and the rest of the world. […]

Podcasts: Environmental health seminar 2015

The Environmentally sustainable practice in hospitals and community settings’ seminar podcasts Organised by NSWNMA in partnership with Southwestern Sydney LHD Friday 15 May at Liverpool Hospital Debbie Wilson, Sustainability officer at the Counties Manukau district health board, New Zealand Nurses leading the way with environmental sustainability and the ‘Global green healthy hospitals’ Chris Hill, Director […]

Environmental health seminar May 15

In partnership with South Western Sydney LHD, NSWNMA presents a seminar on environmental health called ‘Environmentally sustainable practice in hospitals and community settings’. Friday 15 May at Liverpool Hospital. Register online. Download the flyer: Environmental Health Seminar Download the agenda: Environmental Health Seminar Agenda

Environmental health seminar

The NSWNMA, in partnership with South Western Sydney LHD,  will be hosting an environmental health seminar on Friday 15 May 2015 at Liverpool Hospital. Full details here: Environmental Health Forum

Health and Environmental Sustainability Conference Melbourne

The Victorian branch of the ANMF is holding a Health and Environmental Sustainability Conference in Melbourne Town Hall on 20 March. Keynote speaker, passionate activist, Kirsty Albion, Co-Director of the Australian Youth Climate Coalition and Young Environmentalist of the year 2013, will describe how the coalition is building a movement to address the climate crisis. […]

Public Seminar – Protecting health from climate change: what’s needed?

Forum on 25 November 2014 at  University of NSW, Sydney. The health of local and global communities is increasingly threatened by climate change, as made clear in the recent Fifth Assessment from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. But governments and the wider community are failing to recognise either the risks to health from failing to act, or […]

Social networks for green healthcare: collaborating globally for better health and safer climate

An innovative online collaboration between healthcare services on six continents is aiming to drive the low carbon transformation in healthcare. Online social networks are key to overcoming global challenges, like climate change, the Climate Adaptation 2014 Conference at the Gold Coast heard last week. A global network of hospitals and healthcare settings has launched an innovative […]

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