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Enter "green medicine" - the effort to detoxify the healing environment and enhance patients' and employees' health, while reducing costs all around. The international advocacy group Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) - whose 2006 study of 1,200 nurses suggested a link between the hospital environmental and health problems among the staff - has been a pioneer in the movement, recently initiating collaborative research among major U.S. health systems to document how removing toxins from the environment impacts worker safety and lost time due to employee illness...
Beyond cutting down waste, says Colangelo, the hospital also attempts to wield the "power of aesthetics to heal," with musical performances, a koi pond filled with 70 koi in the atrium, a "healing garden" and a nursing floor that wraps around a waterfall and patio. All patient rooms also have...
Henry Lee '68, director of the Kennedy School's Environment and Natural Resources Program, who was scheduled to co-teach a Kennedy School course on energy policy with Holdren this spring, said he was not surprised Holdren was chosen for such an important position.
See TIME's special report on the environment.
That's because Vilsack - like Obama and his energy-and-environment team - has shown an especially deep interest in climate change. He wouldn't be the first devoted biofuels advocate to change his mind after recognizing they're making climate change worse, not to mention contributing to food insecurity here...