CleanMed is presented each year by Practice Greenhealth, the leading membership and networking organization for sustainable health care, and Health Care Without Harm, an international coalition promoting environmentally responsible health care and advocating for environmental health and justice across the globe. Read the sustainability report to become inspired to make positive impacts in the world! [...]
ROSCon was in October 2023 located in New Orleans, Louisiana. This three day event had 700 attendees. Highlights of the event: Used onsite badge printing to enable attendees to update their badges for corrections and print them which reduced waste. Included a diversity scholarship to give to 16 recipients the opportunity to attend this conference [...]
EclipseCon was in October 2023 located in Ludwigsburg, Germany. This three day event had 448 attendees and 18 sponsors. The venue is dedicated to waste separation and they are continuing high energy efficiency updates to continue their sustainability efforts. Highlights of the event: Single use plastic bottles were eliminated by using recycled glass bottles and [...]
The SPLC Summit 2023 was a 2 day event held in Atlanta, Georgia with 313 attendees and 117 speakers. This event saved 151, 478 liters of water through it's sustainability efforts. That is equivalent to filling 502 bathtubs! To learn more about the SPLC Summit sustainability efforts we have presented their accomplishments in our sustainability [...]
CleanMed 2023 was a 2 day conference including 87 virtual attendees and 670 in-person attendees. Their sustainability efforts included: Food waste & donation stream Reusable service ware Offsetting carbon emissions Plant-based meals by default Reducing plastic for name badges Virtual attendance to reduce air travel CleanMed saved 3,321 kilograms of waste through their sustainability efforts. [...]
CleanMed recognizes that the single biggest contributor to an event’s carbon footprint is travel which accounts for more than 90% of the carbon emissions from an average event. By providing CleanMed attendees the ability to attend virtually, it allowed the event to achieve a reduction of 18,206 kg CO2e. That is an amount equivalent to [...]
The EclipseCon 2021 event saved 276,276 KG in CO2e total emissions in 2021. That is equivalent to eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions from 50 average homes' electricity use over an entire year!
The ROSWorld 2021 virtual event saved a total of 1,520,962 KG CO2e! That is equivalent to eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions from more than 1.6 million pounds of coal burned, or 273 homes' electricity use for an entire year!
The Nature & Health 2021 virtual event saved a total of 349,137 KG CO2e! That is equivalent to eliminating the greenhouse gas emissions from driving 75 average fossil fuel vehicles non-stop for an entire year!
While attending virtually still requires energy, this infographic illustrates the average virtual attendee emitted 95% fewer emissions than an in-person attendee at a hybrid event.
