Interest Group Email Archive

Dear ONEIG member,

Having you been reading articles and reports about the need for action to address climate change and environmental degradation? Do you want to be part of a network of nurses raising awareness of the links between health and the environment? Do you recognize the need for nursing leadership and support in building sustainable environments that support health? We are looking for members like you to join us on the Ontario Nurses for the Environment Interest Group (ONEIG) executive!

The ONEIG is seeking nominees for the following positions:

Happy Earth Week Everyone,

What's in this email:

• Nursing Week Panel Discussion: May 15 at 12 p.m.
• Greening Nursing Schools Community of Practice: June 11 at 3 p.m.
• Upcoming ONE-IIOE elections
• First Do No Harm Open Letter
• Update from Shift Action on Decarbonizing HOOPP
• Perinatal Planetary Health Assessment Tool
• Remembering Pope Francis

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Nursing Week 2025 Panel Discussion

Hello Ontario Nurses for the Environment,

What's in this email:

Hello Ontario Nurses for the Environment!

What's in this email:

1. Winter newsletter including the Ontario Climate Emergency Campaign (OCEC) analysis of Ontario provincial election platforms -  PLEASE VOTE!!!!
2. Quarterly meeting - Presentation by One Health

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Winter newsletter:

Hello Ontario Nurses for the Environment!

In this email:

• Greening Nursing Schools Community of Practice - Feb. 6 at 3 p.m. ET
• Maximum Allowable Indoor and Working Temperatures RNAO AGM Resolution consultation

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Greening Nursing Schools Community of Practice

Hello Ontario Nurses for the Environment,

Here is what is in this email:

• Fall Newsletter 
• Rescind Bill 212 Healthcare workers Open Letter (Ripping out bike lanes and building highways on protected wetlands for developer profits)
• Nov 28th - Radon Risk in the Perinatal Period: An Online Learning Module and Assessment Tool (Partnered with CANE)
• December 3rd - Greening nursing school Community of Practice
• December 19th Quarterly
• How to get more involved!

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Ontario Nurses for the Environment's partner CANE has partnered with Health Canada to create an online Radon screening tool, which will be the focus of this presentation

Come to the Ontario Nurses for the Environment's Annual General Meeting and Fall Tour!

Dr. Maya Reshef Kalogirou, RN PhD and Dr. Doris Grinspun, RNAO CEO will be our keynote speakers.

Come to our third Greening Nursing School Community of Practice to get ideas on projects that can be implemented at your nursing school this coming semester.

Ideas on how to reduce the environmental footprint of nursing school and how to add planetary health competencies into your curriculum

We have had nursing educators from many areas of Ontario, other provinces and even some American colleagues come! So, get excited to network and share ideas. It is an interactive event.

Date: August 28 from 11 a.m.–12 p.m. ET

Please join this business-only interest group quarterly meeting. Updates, plus discuss direction for resolution voting at RNAO AGM

Come to the Ontario Nurses for the Environment Quarterly Meeting on Tuesday, June 18 at 7:30 p.m.

As we recently had a webinar with Sacred Earth Solar, this meeting will be business only.

Topics that will be discussed:

Dear ONEIG member,

Having you been reading articles and reports about the need for action to address climate change and environmental degradation? Do you want to be part of a network of nurses raising awareness of the links between health and the environment? Do you recognize the need for nursing leadership and support in building sustainable environments that support health? We are looking for members like you to join us on the Ontario Nurses for the Environment Interest Group (ONEIG) executive!

The ONEIG is seeking nominees for the following positions:

Dear ONEIG member,

Having you been reading articles and reports about the need for action to address climate change and environmental degradation? Do you want to be part of a network of nurses raising awareness of the links between health and the environment? Do you recognize the need for nursing leadership and support in building sustainable environments that support health? We are looking for members like you to join us on the Ontario Nurses for the Environment Interest Group (ONEIG) executive!

The ONEIG is seeking nominees for the following positions:

Happy Earth Day Ontario Nurses for the Environment!

Today is Earth Day and this year’s theme is plastics. To mark this, Canada is hosting the UN’s INC-4 conference in Ottawa this week to deal with global plastics pollution. One of our partners, CAPE, has a letter writing campaign to Environment Minister Steven Guilbault asking for a global plastics pollution treaty. You can sign the form letter here.

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Hello Ontario Nurses for the Environment!

Do you want to get more involved? Our interest group elections are coming up. Some roles are bigger commitments while others are less. If we get multiple people for one role, then it will go to a vote, but we will make sure to find an alternative role for you so you can be included!

Roles coming open: Co-chair, Finance, Social Media, Webmaster, Policy and Political ENO, Workplace Liaison, Membership ENO, Student Liaison

Quarterly Meeting - Réunion trimestrielle

Interest Group Business at the beginning followed by panel discussion - Affaires des groupes d’intérêt au début, suivies d’une table ronde.

Discussion: Looking into the future by learning from the past, reducing waste in nursing

Meet virtually with nursing educators and those interested in nursing education from across Canada. Discuss projects to implement planetary health into nursing curriculum or practical projects like greening the lab. If you are already undertaking such a project, please share it with the others. If you are not sure where to start, this is a good place to find inspiration.

The hope is that this group will have recurrent meetings every two months or at least once a semester, and it will become a community of practice where like-minded nurses can connect.

Hello Ontario Nurses for the Environment!

Please read the winter edition of our newsletter. We're sorry for being a bit late in distributing it, but Ottawa had some great snow this week, so it is still sort of winter...

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Hi Ontario Nurses for the Environment members!

Check out all the work that we have been doing in our Fall 2023 newsletter!

Also, a big shout out to our new newsletter editor, Cailin Doyle! This edition looks amazing.

And, a big thank you to our past newsletter editor Jess Burford for all the hard work over the last few years. She is now president of the Complementary Therapies Nurses' Interest Group (CTNIG) and is very busy in that new capacity.

Be sure to follow along with Rob as he represents Ontario nurses at COP28 in Dubai.

Have a great day!

CALLING ALL ONEIG MEMBERS!!!

Do you care about the environment?

Do you see the connection between a healthy climate and good health outcomes?

Nurses have consistently been ranked as one of the top, if not the top, most trusted profession. Therefore, YOUR VOICE MATTERS!!!

If we want to take meaningful climate action in our communities, our work settings and our health system, we must USE OUR VOICES!!!

Hey ONEIG members! 

We hope you've been enjoying the fall weather and spending time outside with friends and family! ONEIG has been busy working on our sustainable procurement campaign to help green Canada's health-care supply chain, advocating for environmental health, and planning for the COP28 UN Climate Change Conference in Dubai later this year!