Energy efficiency: hospitals - for iPad/Mac/PC: Recent Episodes
The Open University
What strategies can hospitals adopt to reduce their impact on the local and global environment? How might they reduce the carbon footprint of vehicles transporting patients, visitors and goods? This album visits three hospitals which have adopted green approaches to energy efficiency, by cutting electricity consumption, reducing traffic volume, and even generating their own renewable energy. This material forms part of The Open University course T206 Energy for a sustainable future.
Transcript -- How hospitals face unique organisational challenges as generators of lots of traffic.
An Austrian hospital has revolutionised its goods and services transport systems as part of a wider environmental strategy.
Transcript -- An Austrian hospital has revolutionised its goods and services transport systems as part of a wider environmental strategy.
A British hospital incorporates a range of forward-thinking ideas to cut its energy use by 40%.
Transcript -- A British hospital incorporates a range of forward-thinking ideas to cut its energy use by 40%.