A-Z Guide to Reduce Your Organization's Carbon Footprint!

• Advocate for public policies and private action to stem climate change
• Build with climate change in mind
• Compost and car pool
• Develop policies related to reducing energy use and emissions
• Earn ENERGY STAR from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency for your hospital by helping make it the most energy efficient in the nation 
• Flextime: consider whether it would save energy in your organization
• Get information about what your employees and staff are already doing
• Hire people who are passionate about environmental responsibility
• Install solar panels
• Join Energy Star, Healthcare Without Harm and Practice GreenHealth
• Keep track of climate change efforts in your system
• Local purchasing!
• Make climate change an agenda item for system meetings
• Never (or almost never) print emails
• Offer expertise in your organization to others
• Pray for our earth and the people who are harmed by climate change
• Quantify your carbon footprint
• Reward good ideas about saving energy
• Switch to low-flow shower heads and faucet aerators 
• Turn off the lights and computers
• Understand why this is a matter of faith
• Visit a facility with a good energy/emission reduction program
• Work with others in your community who care about climate change
• X, Y and Z — eXpect push-back, but keep going!, recYcle and work toward Zero emissions by 2030