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Progressive Commentary Hour - 11/21/11
November 21, 2011 Guests: Dr. Samuel Epstein, Darrell Rogers, and Dr. Len Saputo
Dr. Samuel Epstein is a leading international authority on the causes and prevention of cancer. He is professor emeritus of Environmental and Occupational Medicine at the University of Illinois School of Public Health and the Chairman of the Cancer Prevention Coalition. Frequently he has been invited to give testimony to Congressional hearings as an expert witness on the cancer risks of pesticides, petrochemicals, cosmetic products, rBGH hormone in milk, sex hormones in meat, and irradiated food. He has also served as a consultant to the US Senate Committee on Public Works.
Dr. Epstein is a sharp critic of the close relationship between cancer drug makers and our professional and government health agencies, in particular the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute. He has written 11 books and authored over 250 peer reviewed papers dealing environmental carcinogens in our everyday products and the reasons for why we are in fact losing the war on cancer. He has also received numerous awards from such organizations as the National Wildlife Federation, the Environmental Justice Award, Bioneers Award, and the Right Livelihood Award (the Alternative Nobel Prize).
Among his more recent books is “National Cancer Institute and American Cancer Society: Criminal Indifference to Cancer Prevention and Conflicts of Interest.”
Darrell Rogers is the Communications Director with the Alliance for Natural Health- USA, which has been at the forefront for spearheading amendments to the Senate 510 Food Safety Bill, but ultimately wants it defeated. Matt has a higher degree in Government studies from Catholic University in Washington DC and has worked in public policy and public affairs issues with Senatorial campaigning and on Capitol Hill. He has also worked as a political affairs specialist for one of the largest political consulting firms in DC. www.ANH-USA.org
Dr. Len Saputo is a board certified physician in internal medicine and the Founder and Medical Director of Health Medicine Foundation in California, a nonprofit education foundation of integral healthcare providers and community leaders dedicated to a holistic vision of wellness. He has been practicing since 1965 after graduating from Duke University’s medical school.
He has co-authored several books on natural wellness health, his most recent being “A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of Medicine” which is a detailed critique of the dominant conventional medical establishment and paradigm, how it is a dismal failure, and what an integral approach to healing can provide to make it more humane, healthy and sustainable.
Len also hosts the program “Prescriptions for Health” on the Progressive Radio Network.
Reader Comments (10)
Great show.
I live in NJ and will support Darrell's initiative with NJ legislature.
I will grant (for now) that my new representative in the Senate, Paul Sarlo, is not a tool of the Vaccine Industry, as Loretta Weinberg was.
I did send her off with a letter plus link to Blaylock's paper at Mercola's Site before the last vote on mandating more vaccines for kids. I was nice, but mentioned the "liar Paul Offit", which I consider an act of universal compassion.
I intend to (calmly and reasonably) talk to all my state reps in person, to the extent possible, about the ADA monopoly. As you know Gary, there are also sound economic reasons to oppose this power grab by ADA.
All the best to you and staff ...
Hi Gary, I live in Sweden and have listened to a couple of your extensive coverages on present day health or lack of it, of your average citizen. Including the the problem of pharmacs infiltration of the political and medical systems. The situation here, even without the total corruption is more or less as serious. I have read somewhat about the green hospital movement and it seems to me there is an open window there for a possible transformation of the hospital concept.
Having had a long interest in alternative therapies and preventative medicine, I written a piece that further develops what I have read on this subject. I include it below. Maybe you can use it as idea base for a program.
Yours Sincerely Graeme Booth
The Green Hospital movement incorporating Alternative Medicines Therapies and Social Change.
The Green Hospital: from centres of sickness to centres of wellness.
(Sources: In part - recycled from Planet Green)
Recycling: We all should recycle, but hospitals even more so that others! Hospitals with an environmental bent are recycling alcohol, batteries, light bulbs, old linens, computers, paper, cardboard, packing peanuts and more. They are also saving kitchen oil for bio-diesel processing.
Reusing Materials: Hospitals should make a concerted effort to reuse packing materials, wheelchairs and crutches, envelopes for internal communication, and medical equipment. I used crutches when I tore my ACL ? the hospital never asked for them back, or told me about a recycling opportunity. I'd gladly give them in, rather than keeping them in my closet, taking up space.
Reducing Waste: It isn't enough to recycle and reuse. After all, it is 2008, and the basics aren't good enough! Hospitals must also rethink the types of products they purchase. Green hospitals are using energy efficient light bulbs and reusable silverware. Some are even composting and using cloth nappies/diapers.
Cleaner Air: Going green also means better air quality. To that end, some hospitals are installing systems that provide better ventilation. They are also using cleaning materials with fewer hazardous materials and paints with fewer VOCs. And to reduce pollution outdoors, some offer electric car charging stations.
Expanded concept, further criteria for the creation of the truly "Green Hospital"
The green hospital movement is a positive development towards sustainable medical institutions. But to succeed with such an ambition, the green-hospital concept needs to be broadened. The following criteria need to be explored: living-systems design. equitable work-places, socially just/ democratic legitimacy, -the transition to alternative medical and therapeutic practices.
Energy autonomous buildings
Economising of water use, including the collection and reuse of rain and snow.
Ecologically sustainable materials.
Ecological and locally produced food.
Renewable and energy efficient hospital operation
Incorporating natural, - light design, material use in furnishing and décor.
The greening of interiors (indoor-planting) and landscaping (with high indoor visibility) around the hospital.
Further Criteria: Another area in the hospitals transition to that of becoming in my mind truly green, must be the adoption and incorporation of alternative diagnosis, therapies and medicine into standard hospital practice. To be truly green requires a shift from treatments that are chiefly pharmaceutically based, destructive to the environment, with benefits that are short-term, focused on symptom suppression, to that of whole-person diagnosis and treatments, strengthening and aiding the individuals own capacity for healing. Placing a larger emphasis on and parallel to the treatment of 'sickness' should be prevention-consultation, with a focus on lifestyle, stress and the environmentally-related, negative side-effects that occur to the psychic/somatic functions of the individual.
With the introduction of alternative therapies into hospitals, structural changes would have to follow. One change that I deem advantageous and even necessary would be the introduction of the roll of diagnostic-guide for patients. His/her roll (a jack of all therapies) would be to assess through certain initial verbal-analysis and diagnosis, the patients situation and needs, be they in need of acute, chronic or prevention orientated treatments, -and guiding said patient to departments within the “traditional” or the many different alternative treatments!
Of course the introduction of whole-person preventive, health-development thinking into the present day pharmaceutical symptom-treatment and non-health orientated hospitals, would inevitably lead to their necessary transformation into wellness centres.
Social Change
The green hospital that is seriously engaged in helping individual patients and catering fully to their possibility for recovery and future wellness, needs even to empower each and everyone of it's co-workers/ practitioners. The function and development of the green hospital must be determined by it's members/staff. Every hospital would develop from the unique combination and gestation of its practitioners/co-workers, community-interdependence and vision. This would call for a foundation of not-for-profit enterprise, an enterprise based on respect, the democratic workplace, individual engagement and responsibility. Cooperation, equality and the possibility for all to learn and grow would need to be a priority.
Close interaction and a supportive relationship with the local community would create new possibilities for both. The exploring of new funding and financing systems that would allow all citizens access to help irrespective of their financial situation. The right to help for all who seek a healthier and higher quality of life.
I envisage the new green hospitals as centres for healing and wellness. A part of that roll would be research, inform and educate the community on the multi-faceted area of life-quality from a whole-person perspective.
Graeme Booth 02 01 2012
Hi Gary, I live in Sweden and have listened to a couple of your extensive coverages on present day health or lack of it, of your average citizen. Including the the problem of pharmacs infiltration of the political and medical systems. The situation here, even without the total corruption is more or less as serious. I have read somewhat about the green hospital movement and it seems to me there is an open window there for a possible transformation of the hospital concept.
Having had a long interest in alternative therapies and preventative medicine, I written a piece that further develops what I have read on this subject. I include it below. Maybe you can use it as idea base for a program.
Yours Sincerely Graeme Booth
The Green Hospital movement incorporating Alternative Medicines Therapies and Social Change.
The Green Hospital: from centres of sickness to centres of wellness.
(Sources: In part - recycled from Planet Green)
Recycling: We all should recycle, but hospitals even more so that others! Hospitals with an environmental bent are recycling alcohol, batteries, light bulbs, old linens, computers, paper, cardboard, packing peanuts and more. They are also saving kitchen oil for bio-diesel processing.
Reusing Materials: Hospitals should make a concerted effort to reuse packing materials, wheelchairs and crutches, envelopes for internal communication, and medical equipment. I used crutches when I tore my ACL ? the hospital never asked for them back, or told me about a recycling opportunity. I'd gladly give them in, rather than keeping them in my closet, taking up space.
Reducing Waste: It isn't enough to recycle and reuse. After all, it is 2008, and the basics aren't good enough! Hospitals must also rethink the types of products they purchase. Green hospitals are using energy efficient light bulbs and reusable silverware. Some are even composting and using cloth nappies/diapers.
Cleaner Air: Going green also means better air quality. To that end, some hospitals are installing systems that provide better ventilation. They are also using cleaning materials with fewer hazardous materials and paints with fewer VOCs. And to reduce pollution outdoors, some offer electric car charging stations.
Expanded concept, further criteria for the creation of the truly "Green Hospital"
The green hospital movement is a positive development towards sustainable medical institutions. But to succeed with such an ambition, the green-hospital concept needs to be broadened. The following criteria need to be explored: living-systems design. equitable work-places, socially just/ democratic legitimacy, -the transition to alternative medical and therapeutic practices.
Energy autonomous buildings
Economising of water use, including the collection and reuse of rain and snow.
Ecologically sustainable materials.
Ecological and locally produced food.
Renewable and energy efficient hospital operation
Incorporating natural, - light design, material use in furnishing and décor.
The greening of interiors (indoor-planting) and landscaping (with high indoor visibility) around the hospital.
Further Criteria: Another area in the hospitals transition to that of becoming in my mind truly green, must be the adoption and incorporation of alternative diagnosis, therapies and medicine into standard hospital practice. To be truly green requires a shift from treatments that are chiefly pharmaceutically based, destructive to the environment, with benefits that are short-term, focused on symptom suppression, to that of whole-person diagnosis and treatments, strengthening and aiding the individuals own capacity for healing. Placing a larger emphasis on and parallel to the treatment of 'sickness' should be prevention-consultation, with a focus on lifestyle, stress and the environmentally-related, negative side-effects that occur to the psychic/somatic functions of the individual.
With the introduction of alternative therapies into hospitals, structural changes would have to follow. One change that I deem advantageous and even necessary would be the introduction of the roll of diagnostic-guide for patients. His/her roll (a jack of all therapies) would be to assess through certain initial verbal-analysis and diagnosis, the patients situation and needs, be they in need of acute, chronic or prevention orientated treatments, -and guiding said patient to departments within the “traditional” or the many different alternative treatments!
Of course the introduction of whole-person preventive, health-development thinking into the present day pharmaceutical symptom-treatment and non-health orientated hospitals, would inevitably lead to their necessary transformation into wellness centres.
Social Change
The green hospital that is seriously engaged in helping individual patients and catering fully to their possibility for recovery and future wellness, needs even to empower each and everyone of it's co-workers/ practitioners. The function and development of the green hospital must be determined by it's members/staff. Every hospital would develop from the unique combination and gestation of its practitioners/co-workers, community-interdependence and vision. This would call for a foundation of not-for-profit enterprise, an enterprise based on respect, the democratic workplace, individual engagement and responsibility. Cooperation, equality and the possibility for all to learn and grow would need to be a priority.
Close interaction and a supportive relationship with the local community would create new possibilities for both. The exploring of new funding and financing systems that would allow all citizens access to help irrespective of their financial situation. The right to help for all who seek a healthier and higher quality of life.
I envisage the new green hospitals as centres for healing and wellness. A part of that roll would be research, inform and educate the community on the multi-faceted area of life-quality from a whole-person perspective.
Graeme Booth 02 01 2012
Hi Gary, I live in Sweden and have listened to a couple of your extensive coverages on present day health or lack of it, of your average citizen. Including the the problem of pharmacs infiltration of the political and medical systems. The situation here, even without the total corruption is more or less as serious. I have read somewhat about the green hospital movement and it seems to me there is an open window there for a possible transformation of the hospital concept.
Having had a long interest in alternative therapies and preventative medicine, I written a piece that further develops what I have read on this subject. I include it below. Maybe you can use it as idea base for a program.
Yours Sincerely Graeme Booth
The Green Hospital movement incorporating Alternative Medicines Therapies and Social Change.
The Green Hospital: from centres of sickness to centres of wellness.
(Sources: In part - recycled from Planet Green)
Recycling: We all should recycle, but hospitals even more so that others! Hospitals with an environmental bent are recycling alcohol, batteries, light bulbs, old linens, computers, paper, cardboard, packing peanuts and more. They are also saving kitchen oil for bio-diesel processing.
Reusing Materials: Hospitals should make a concerted effort to reuse packing materials, wheelchairs and crutches, envelopes for internal communication, and medical equipment. I used crutches when I tore my ACL ? the hospital never asked for them back, or told me about a recycling opportunity. I'd gladly give them in, rather than keeping them in my closet, taking up space.
Reducing Waste: It isn't enough to recycle and reuse. After all, it is 2008, and the basics aren't good enough! Hospitals must also rethink the types of products they purchase. Green hospitals are using energy efficient light bulbs and reusable silverware. Some are even composting and using cloth nappies/diapers.
Cleaner Air: Going green also means better air quality. To that end, some hospitals are installing systems that provide better ventilation. They are also using cleaning materials with fewer hazardous materials and paints with fewer VOCs. And to reduce pollution outdoors, some offer electric car charging stations.
Expanded concept, further criteria for the creation of the truly "Green Hospital"
The green hospital movement is a positive development towards sustainable medical institutions. But to succeed with such an ambition, the green-hospital concept needs to be broadened. The following criteria need to be explored: living-systems design. equitable work-places, socially just/ democratic legitimacy, -the transition to alternative medical and therapeutic practices.
Energy autonomous buildings
Economising of water use, including the collection and reuse of rain and snow.
Ecologically sustainable materials.
Ecological and locally produced food.
Renewable and energy efficient hospital operation
Incorporating natural, - light design, material use in furnishing and décor.
The greening of interiors (indoor-planting) and landscaping (with high indoor visibility) around the hospital.
Further Criteria: Another area in the hospitals transition to that of becoming in my mind truly green, must be the adoption and incorporation of alternative diagnosis, therapies and medicine into standard hospital practice. To be truly green requires a shift from treatments that are chiefly pharmaceutically based, destructive to the environment, with benefits that are short-term, focused on symptom suppression, to that of whole-person diagnosis and treatments, strengthening and aiding the individuals own capacity for healing. Placing a larger emphasis on and parallel to the treatment of 'sickness' should be prevention-consultation, with a focus on lifestyle, stress and the environmentally-related, negative side-effects that occur to the psychic/somatic functions of the individual.
With the introduction of alternative therapies into hospitals, structural changes would have to follow. One change that I deem advantageous and even necessary would be the introduction of the roll of diagnostic-guide for patients. His/her roll (a jack of all therapies) would be to assess through certain initial verbal-analysis and diagnosis, the patients situation and needs, be they in need of acute, chronic or prevention orientated treatments, -and guiding said patient to departments within the “traditional” or the many different alternative treatments!
Of course the introduction of whole-person preventive, health-development thinking into the present day pharmaceutical symptom-treatment and non-health orientated hospitals, would inevitably lead to their necessary transformation into wellness centres.
Social Change
The green hospital that is seriously engaged in helping individual patients and catering fully to their possibility for recovery and future wellness, needs even to empower each and everyone of it's co-workers/ practitioners. The function and development of the green hospital must be determined by it's members/staff. Every hospital would develop from the unique combination and gestation of its practitioners/co-workers, community-interdependence and vision. This would call for a foundation of not-for-profit enterprise, an enterprise based on respect, the democratic workplace, individual engagement and responsibility. Cooperation, equality and the possibility for all to learn and grow would need to be a priority.
Close interaction and a supportive relationship with the local community would create new possibilities for both. The exploring of new funding and financing systems that would allow all citizens access to help irrespective of their financial situation. The right to help for all who seek a healthier and higher quality of life.
I envisage the new green hospitals as centres for healing and wellness. A part of that roll would be research, inform and educate the community on the multi-faceted area of life-quality from a whole-person perspective.
Graeme Booth 02 01 2012
Hi Gary, I live in Sweden and have listened to a couple of your extensive coverages on present day health or lack of it, of your average citizen. Including the the problem of pharmacs infiltration of the political and medical systems. The situation here, even without the total corruption is more or less as serious. I have read somewhat about the green hospital movement and it seems to me there is an open window there for a possible transformation of the hospital concept.
Having had a long interest in alternative therapies and preventative medicine, I written a piece that further develops what I have read on this subject. I include it below. Maybe you can use it as idea base for a program.
Yours Sincerely Graeme Booth
The Green Hospital movement incorporating Alternative Medicines Therapies and Social Change.
The Green Hospital: from centres of sickness to centres of wellness.
(Sources: In part - recycled from Planet Green)
Recycling: We all should recycle, but hospitals even more so that others! Hospitals with an environmental bent are recycling alcohol, batteries, light bulbs, old linens, computers, paper, cardboard, packing peanuts and more. They are also saving kitchen oil for bio-diesel processing.
Reusing Materials: Hospitals should make a concerted effort to reuse packing materials, wheelchairs and crutches, envelopes for internal communication, and medical equipment. I used crutches when I tore my ACL ? the hospital never asked for them back, or told me about a recycling opportunity. I'd gladly give them in, rather than keeping them in my closet, taking up space.
Reducing Waste: It isn't enough to recycle and reuse. After all, it is 2008, and the basics aren't good enough! Hospitals must also rethink the types of products they purchase. Green hospitals are using energy efficient light bulbs and reusable silverware. Some are even composting and using cloth nappies/diapers.
Cleaner Air: Going green also means better air quality. To that end, some hospitals are installing systems that provide better ventilation. They are also using cleaning materials with fewer hazardous materials and paints with fewer VOCs. And to reduce pollution outdoors, some offer electric car charging stations.
Expanded concept, further criteria for the creation of the truly "Green Hospital"
The green hospital movement is a positive development towards sustainable medical institutions. But to succeed with such an ambition, the green-hospital concept needs to be broadened. The following criteria need to be explored: living-systems design. equitable work-places, socially just/ democratic legitimacy, -the transition to alternative medical and therapeutic practices.
Energy autonomous buildings
Economising of water use, including the collection and reuse of rain and snow.
Ecologically sustainable materials.
Ecological and locally produced food.
Renewable and energy efficient hospital operation
Incorporating natural, - light design, material use in furnishing and décor.
The greening of interiors (indoor-planting) and landscaping (with high indoor visibility) around the hospital.
Further Criteria: Another area in the hospitals transition to that of becoming in my mind truly green, must be the adoption and incorporation of alternative diagnosis, therapies and medicine into standard hospital practice. To be truly green requires a shift from treatments that are chiefly pharmaceutically based, destructive to the environment, with benefits that are short-term, focused on symptom suppression, to that of whole-person diagnosis and treatments, strengthening and aiding the individuals own capacity for healing. Placing a larger emphasis on and parallel to the treatment of 'sickness' should be prevention-consultation, with a focus on lifestyle, stress and the environmentally-related, negative side-effects that occur to the psychic/somatic functions of the individual.
With the introduction of alternative therapies into hospitals, structural changes would have to follow. One change that I deem advantageous and even necessary would be the introduction of the roll of diagnostic-guide for patients. His/her roll (a jack of all therapies) would be to assess through certain initial verbal-analysis and diagnosis, the patients situation and needs, be they in need of acute, chronic or prevention orientated treatments, -and guiding said patient to departments within the “traditional” or the many different alternative treatments!
Of course the introduction of whole-person preventive, health-development thinking into the present day pharmaceutical symptom-treatment and non-health orientated hospitals, would inevitably lead to their necessary transformation into wellness centres.
Social Change
The green hospital that is seriously engaged in helping individual patients and catering fully to their possibility for recovery and future wellness, needs even to empower each and everyone of it's co-workers/ practitioners. The function and development of the green hospital must be determined by it's members/staff. Every hospital would develop from the unique combination and gestation of its practitioners/co-workers, community-interdependence and vision. This would call for a foundation of not-for-profit enterprise, an enterprise based on respect, the democratic workplace, individual engagement and responsibility. Cooperation, equality and the possibility for all to learn and grow would need to be a priority.
Close interaction and a supportive relationship with the local community would create new possibilities for both. The exploring of new funding and financing systems that would allow all citizens access to help irrespective of their financial situation. The right to help for all who seek a healthier and higher quality of life.
I envisage the new green hospitals as centres for healing and wellness. A part of that roll would be research, inform and educate the community on the multi-faceted area of life-quality from a whole-person perspective.
Graeme Booth 02 01 2012
Hi Gary, I live in Sweden and have listened to a couple of your extensive coverages on present day health or lack of it, of your average citizen. Including the the problem of pharmacs infiltration of the political and medical systems. The situation here, even without the total corruption is more or less as serious. I have read somewhat about the green hospital movement and it seems to me there is an open window there for a possible transformation of the hospital concept.
Having had a long interest in alternative therapies and preventative medicine, I written a piece that further develops what I have read on this subject. I include it below. Maybe you can use it as idea base for a program.
Yours Sincerely Graeme Booth
The Green Hospital movement incorporating Alternative Medicines Therapies and Social Change.
The Green Hospital: from centres of sickness to centres of wellness.
(Sources: In part - recycled from Planet Green)
Recycling: We all should recycle, but hospitals even more so that others! Hospitals with an environmental bent are recycling alcohol, batteries, light bulbs, old linens, computers, paper, cardboard, packing peanuts and more. They are also saving kitchen oil for bio-diesel processing.
Reusing Materials: Hospitals should make a concerted effort to reuse packing materials, wheelchairs and crutches, envelopes for internal communication, and medical equipment. I used crutches when I tore my ACL ? the hospital never asked for them back, or told me about a recycling opportunity. I'd gladly give them in, rather than keeping them in my closet, taking up space.
Reducing Waste: It isn't enough to recycle and reuse. After all, it is 2008, and the basics aren't good enough! Hospitals must also rethink the types of products they purchase. Green hospitals are using energy efficient light bulbs and reusable silverware. Some are even composting and using cloth nappies/diapers.
Cleaner Air: Going green also means better air quality. To that end, some hospitals are installing systems that provide better ventilation. They are also using cleaning materials with fewer hazardous materials and paints with fewer VOCs. And to reduce pollution outdoors, some offer electric car charging stations.
Expanded concept, further criteria for the creation of the truly "Green Hospital"
The green hospital movement is a positive development towards sustainable medical institutions. But to succeed with such an ambition, the green-hospital concept needs to be broadened. The following criteria need to be explored: living-systems design. equitable work-places, socially just/ democratic legitimacy, -the transition to alternative medical and therapeutic practices.
Energy autonomous buildings
Economising of water use, including the collection and reuse of rain and snow.
Ecologically sustainable materials.
Ecological and locally produced food.
Renewable and energy efficient hospital operation
Incorporating natural, - light design, material use in furnishing and décor.
The greening of interiors (indoor-planting) and landscaping (with high indoor visibility) around the hospital.
Further Criteria: Another area in the hospitals transition to that of becoming in my mind truly green, must be the adoption and incorporation of alternative diagnosis, therapies and medicine into standard hospital practice. To be truly green requires a shift from treatments that are chiefly pharmaceutically based, destructive to the environment, with benefits that are short-term, focused on symptom suppression, to that of whole-person diagnosis and treatments, strengthening and aiding the individuals own capacity for healing. Placing a larger emphasis on and parallel to the treatment of 'sickness' should be prevention-consultation, with a focus on lifestyle, stress and the environmentally-related, negative side-effects that occur to the psychic/somatic functions of the individual.
With the introduction of alternative therapies into hospitals, structural changes would have to follow. One change that I deem advantageous and even necessary would be the introduction of the roll of diagnostic-guide for patients. His/her roll (a jack of all therapies) would be to assess through certain initial verbal-analysis and diagnosis, the patients situation and needs, be they in need of acute, chronic or prevention orientated treatments, -and guiding said patient to departments within the “traditional” or the many different alternative treatments!
Of course the introduction of whole-person preventive, health-development thinking into the present day pharmaceutical symptom-treatment and non-health orientated hospitals, would inevitably lead to their necessary transformation into wellness centres.
Social Change
The green hospital that is seriously engaged in helping individual patients and catering fully to their possibility for recovery and future wellness, needs even to empower each and everyone of it's co-workers/ practitioners. The function and development of the green hospital must be determined by it's members/staff. Every hospital would develop from the unique combination and gestation of its practitioners/co-workers, community-interdependence and vision. This would call for a foundation of not-for-profit enterprise, an enterprise based on respect, the democratic workplace, individual engagement and responsibility. Cooperation, equality and the possibility for all to learn and grow would need to be a priority.
Close interaction and a supportive relationship with the local community would create new possibilities for both. The exploring of new funding and financing systems that would allow all citizens access to help irrespective of their financial situation. The right to help for all who seek a healthier and higher quality of life.
I envisage the new green hospitals as centres for healing and wellness. A part of that roll would be research, inform and educate the community on the multi-faceted area of life-quality from a whole-person perspective.
Graeme Booth 02 01 2012
Hi Gary, I live in Sweden and have listened to a couple of your extensive coverages on present day health or lack of it, of your average citizen. Including the the problem of pharmacs infiltration of the political and medical systems. The situation here, even without the total corruption is more or less as serious. I have read somewhat about the green hospital movement and it seems to me there is an open window there for a possible transformation of the hospital concept.
Having had a long interest in alternative therapies and preventative medicine, I written a piece that further develops what I have read on this subject. I include it below. Maybe you can use it as idea base for a program.
Yours Sincerely Graeme Booth
The Green Hospital movement incorporating Alternative Medicines Therapies and Social Change.
The Green Hospital: from centres of sickness to centres of wellness.
(Sources: In part - recycled from Planet Green)
Recycling: We all should recycle, but hospitals even more so that others! Hospitals with an environmental bent are recycling alcohol, batteries, light bulbs, old linens, computers, paper, cardboard, packing peanuts and more. They are also saving kitchen oil for bio-diesel processing.
Reusing Materials: Hospitals should make a concerted effort to reuse packing materials, wheelchairs and crutches, envelopes for internal communication, and medical equipment. I used crutches when I tore my ACL ? the hospital never asked for them back, or told me about a recycling opportunity. I'd gladly give them in, rather than keeping them in my closet, taking up space.
Reducing Waste: It isn't enough to recycle and reuse. After all, it is 2008, and the basics aren't good enough! Hospitals must also rethink the types of products they purchase. Green hospitals are using energy efficient light bulbs and reusable silverware. Some are even composting and using cloth nappies/diapers.
Cleaner Air: Going green also means better air quality. To that end, some hospitals are installing systems that provide better ventilation. They are also using cleaning materials with fewer hazardous materials and paints with fewer VOCs. And to reduce pollution outdoors, some offer electric car charging stations.
Expanded concept, further criteria for the creation of the truly "Green Hospital"
The green hospital movement is a positive development towards sustainable medical institutions. But to succeed with such an ambition, the green-hospital concept needs to be broadened. The following criteria need to be explored: living-systems design. equitable work-places, socially just/ democratic legitimacy, -the transition to alternative medical and therapeutic practices.
Energy autonomous buildings
Economising of water use, including the collection and reuse of rain and snow.
Ecologically sustainable materials.
Ecological and locally produced food.
Renewable and energy efficient hospital operation
Incorporating natural, - light design, material use in furnishing and décor.
The greening of interiors (indoor-planting) and landscaping (with high indoor visibility) around the hospital.
Further Criteria: Another area in the hospitals transition to that of becoming in my mind truly green, must be the adoption and incorporation of alternative diagnosis, therapies and medicine into standard hospital practice. To be truly green requires a shift from treatments that are chiefly pharmaceutically based, destructive to the environment, with benefits that are short-term, focused on symptom suppression, to that of whole-person diagnosis and treatments, strengthening and aiding the individuals own capacity for healing. Placing a larger emphasis on and parallel to the treatment of 'sickness' should be prevention-consultation, with a focus on lifestyle, stress and the environmentally-related, negative side-effects that occur to the psychic/somatic functions of the individual.
With the introduction of alternative therapies into hospitals, structural changes would have to follow. One change that I deem advantageous and even necessary would be the introduction of the roll of diagnostic-guide for patients. His/her roll (a jack of all therapies) would be to assess through certain initial verbal-analysis and diagnosis, the patients situation and needs, be they in need of acute, chronic or prevention orientated treatments, -and guiding said patient to departments within the “traditional” or the many different alternative treatments!
Of course the introduction of whole-person preventive, health-development thinking into the present day pharmaceutical symptom-treatment and non-health orientated hospitals, would inevitably lead to their necessary transformation into wellness centres.
Social Change
The green hospital that is seriously engaged in helping individual patients and catering fully to their possibility for recovery and future wellness, needs even to empower each and everyone of it's co-workers/ practitioners. The function and development of the green hospital must be determined by it's members/staff. Every hospital would develop from the unique combination and gestation of its practitioners/co-workers, community-interdependence and vision. This would call for a foundation of not-for-profit enterprise, an enterprise based on respect, the democratic workplace, individual engagement and responsibility. Cooperation, equality and the possibility for all to learn and grow would need to be a priority.
Close interaction and a supportive relationship with the local community would create new possibilities for both. The exploring of new funding and financing systems that would allow all citizens access to help irrespective of their financial situation. The right to help for all who seek a healthier and higher quality of life.
I envisage the new green hospitals as centres for healing and wellness. A part of that roll would be research, inform and educate the community on the multi-faceted area of life-quality from a whole-person perspective.
Graeme Booth 02 01 2012
Hi Gary, I live in Sweden and have listened to a couple of your extensive coverages on present day health or lack of it, of your average citizen. Including the the problem of pharmacs infiltration of the political and medical systems. The situation here, even without the total corruption is more or less as serious. I have read somewhat about the green hospital movement and it seems to me there is an open window there for a possible transformation of the hospital concept.
Having had a long interest in alternative therapies and preventative medicine, I written a piece that further develops what I have read on this subject. I include it below. Maybe you can use it as idea base for a program.
Yours Sincerely Graeme Booth
The Green Hospital movement incorporating Alternative Medicines Therapies and Social Change.
The Green Hospital: from centres of sickness to centres of wellness.
(Sources: In part - recycled from Planet Green)
Recycling: We all should recycle, but hospitals even more so that others! Hospitals with an environmental bent are recycling alcohol, batteries, light bulbs, old linens, computers, paper, cardboard, packing peanuts and more. They are also saving kitchen oil for bio-diesel processing.
Reusing Materials: Hospitals should make a concerted effort to reuse packing materials, wheelchairs and crutches, envelopes for internal communication, and medical equipment. I used crutches when I tore my ACL ? the hospital never asked for them back, or told me about a recycling opportunity. I'd gladly give them in, rather than keeping them in my closet, taking up space.
Reducing Waste: It isn't enough to recycle and reuse. After all, it is 2008, and the basics aren't good enough! Hospitals must also rethink the types of products they purchase. Green hospitals are using energy efficient light bulbs and reusable silverware. Some are even composting and using cloth nappies/diapers.
Cleaner Air: Going green also means better air quality. To that end, some hospitals are installing systems that provide better ventilation. They are also using cleaning materials with fewer hazardous materials and paints with fewer VOCs. And to reduce pollution outdoors, some offer electric car charging stations.
Expanded concept, further criteria for the creation of the truly "Green Hospital"
The green hospital movement is a positive development towards sustainable medical institutions. But to succeed with such an ambition, the green-hospital concept needs to be broadened. The following criteria need to be explored: living-systems design. equitable work-places, socially just/ democratic legitimacy, -the transition to alternative medical and therapeutic practices.
Energy autonomous buildings
Economising of water use, including the collection and reuse of rain and snow.
Ecologically sustainable materials.
Ecological and locally produced food.
Renewable and energy efficient hospital operation
Incorporating natural, - light design, material use in furnishing and décor.
The greening of interiors (indoor-planting) and landscaping (with high indoor visibility) around the hospital.
Further Criteria: Another area in the hospitals transition to that of becoming in my mind truly green, must be the adoption and incorporation of alternative diagnosis, therapies and medicine into standard hospital practice. To be truly green requires a shift from treatments that are chiefly pharmaceutically based, destructive to the environment, with benefits that are short-term, focused on symptom suppression, to that of whole-person diagnosis and treatments, strengthening and aiding the individuals own capacity for healing. Placing a larger emphasis on and parallel to the treatment of 'sickness' should be prevention-consultation, with a focus on lifestyle, stress and the environmentally-related, negative side-effects that occur to the psychic/somatic functions of the individual.
With the introduction of alternative therapies into hospitals, structural changes would have to follow. One change that I deem advantageous and even necessary would be the introduction of the roll of diagnostic-guide for patients. His/her roll (a jack of all therapies) would be to assess through certain initial verbal-analysis and diagnosis, the patients situation and needs, be they in need of acute, chronic or prevention orientated treatments, -and guiding said patient to departments within the “traditional” or the many different alternative treatments!
Of course the introduction of whole-person preventive, health-development thinking into the present day pharmaceutical symptom-treatment and non-health orientated hospitals, would inevitably lead to their necessary transformation into wellness centres.
Social Change
The green hospital that is seriously engaged in helping individual patients and catering fully to their possibility for recovery and future wellness, needs even to empower each and everyone of it's co-workers/ practitioners. The function and development of the green hospital must be determined by it's members/staff. Every hospital would develop from the unique combination and gestation of its practitioners/co-workers, community-interdependence and vision. This would call for a foundation of not-for-profit enterprise, an enterprise based on respect, the democratic workplace, individual engagement and responsibility. Cooperation, equality and the possibility for all to learn and grow would need to be a priority.
Close interaction and a supportive relationship with the local community would create new possibilities for both. The exploring of new funding and financing systems that would allow all citizens access to help irrespective of their financial situation. The right to help for all who seek a healthier and higher quality of life.
I envisage the new green hospitals as centres for healing and wellness. A part of that roll would be research, inform and educate the community on the multi-faceted area of life-quality from a whole-person perspective.
Graeme Booth 02 01 2012
Hi Gary, I live in Sweden and have listened to a couple of your extensive coverages on present day health or lack of it, of your average citizen. Including the the problem of pharmacs infiltration of the political and medical systems. The situation here, even without the total corruption is more or less as serious. I have read somewhat about the green hospital movement and it seems to me there is an open window there for a possible transformation of the hospital concept.
Having had a long interest in alternative therapies and preventative medicine, I written a piece that further develops what I have read on this subject. I include it below. Maybe you can use it as idea base for a program.
Yours Sincerely Graeme Booth
The Green Hospital movement incorporating Alternative Medicines Therapies and Social Change.
The Green Hospital: from centres of sickness to centres of wellness.
(Sources: In part - recycled from Planet Green)
Recycling: We all should recycle, but hospitals even more so that others! Hospitals with an environmental bent are recycling alcohol, batteries, light bulbs, old linens, computers, paper, cardboard, packing peanuts and more. They are also saving kitchen oil for bio-diesel processing.
Reusing Materials: Hospitals should make a concerted effort to reuse packing materials, wheelchairs and crutches, envelopes for internal communication, and medical equipment. I used crutches when I tore my ACL ? the hospital never asked for them back, or told me about a recycling opportunity. I'd gladly give them in, rather than keeping them in my closet, taking up space.
Reducing Waste: It isn't enough to recycle and reuse. After all, it is 2008, and the basics aren't good enough! Hospitals must also rethink the types of products they purchase. Green hospitals are using energy efficient light bulbs and reusable silverware. Some are even composting and using cloth nappies/diapers.
Cleaner Air: Going green also means better air quality. To that end, some hospitals are installing systems that provide better ventilation. They are also using cleaning materials with fewer hazardous materials and paints with fewer VOCs. And to reduce pollution outdoors, some offer electric car charging stations.
Expanded concept, further criteria for the creation of the truly "Green Hospital"
The green hospital movement is a positive development towards sustainable medical institutions. But to succeed with such an ambition, the green-hospital concept needs to be broadened. The following criteria need to be explored: living-systems design. equitable work-places, socially just/ democratic legitimacy, -the transition to alternative medical and therapeutic practices.
Energy autonomous buildings
Economising of water use, including the collection and reuse of rain and snow.
Ecologically sustainable materials.
Ecological and locally produced food.
Renewable and energy efficient hospital operation
Incorporating natural, - light design, material use in furnishing and décor.
The greening of interiors (indoor-planting) and landscaping (with high indoor visibility) around the hospital.
Further Criteria: Another area in the hospitals transition to that of becoming in my mind truly green, must be the adoption and incorporation of alternative diagnosis, therapies and medicine into standard hospital practice. To be truly green requires a shift from treatments that are chiefly pharmaceutically based, destructive to the environment, with benefits that are short-term, focused on symptom suppression, to that of whole-person diagnosis and treatments, strengthening and aiding the individuals own capacity for healing. Placing a larger emphasis on and parallel to the treatment of 'sickness' should be prevention-consultation, with a focus on lifestyle, stress and the environmentally-related, negative side-effects that occur to the psychic/somatic functions of the individual.
With the introduction of alternative therapies into hospitals, structural changes would have to follow. One change that I deem advantageous and even necessary would be the introduction of the roll of diagnostic-guide for patients. His/her roll (a jack of all therapies) would be to assess through certain initial verbal-analysis and diagnosis, the patients situation and needs, be they in need of acute, chronic or prevention orientated treatments, -and guiding said patient to departments within the “traditional” or the many different alternative treatments!
Of course the introduction of whole-person preventive, health-development thinking into the present day pharmaceutical symptom-treatment and non-health orientated hospitals, would inevitably lead to their necessary transformation into wellness centres.
Social Change
The green hospital that is seriously engaged in helping individual patients and catering fully to their possibility for recovery and future wellness, needs even to empower each and everyone of it's co-workers/ practitioners. The function and development of the green hospital must be determined by it's members/staff. Every hospital would develop from the unique combination and gestation of its practitioners/co-workers, community-interdependence and vision. This would call for a foundation of not-for-profit enterprise, an enterprise based on respect, the democratic workplace, individual engagement and responsibility. Cooperation, equality and the possibility for all to learn and grow would need to be a priority.
Close interaction and a supportive relationship with the local community would create new possibilities for both. The exploring of new funding and financing systems that would allow all citizens access to help irrespective of their financial situation. The right to help for all who seek a healthier and higher quality of life.
I envisage the new green hospitals as centres for healing and wellness. A part of that roll would be research, inform and educate the community on the multi-faceted area of life-quality from a whole-person perspective.
Graeme Booth 02 01 2012
Hi again, concerning the the many copies of the same idea above, I believe there is a bug because after sending it kept on returning stating that was unsuccessful.