National Nurses' Week is soon approaching- May 10 to 16th. The ONEIG executive team is wishing you a Happy National Nurses' Week and a big warm thank you for all that you do to support and protect environmental health within your practice, your community, and at home.
Please see below for some May Updates!
Tell Ottawa to Stop Hwy 413!
Minister Wilkinson will be releasing his decision on an environmental assessment soon (re Hwy 413), and the David Suzuki Foundation would like to send as many emails as possible- they have already gotten over 6,500 emails! Let's help them get to 7,000
Race to Zero: COP26
The Clean Air Partnership is hosting "Race to Zero: COP26". "The Race to Zero is a global campaign run by the COP26 Presidency and High-Level Climate Champions to rally leadership and support from businesses, cities, regions and investors for a healthy, resilient, zero carbon transition that prevents future threats, creates decent jobs, and unlocks inclusive, sustainable growth. Cities Race to Zero brings together all cities and municipal governments who share a vision for a better future based on a set of principles that address equity together with the environment and who strive to build a coalition across business, labor unions, youth climate activists and civil society, to transform the world. The campaign aims to recruit 1,000 cities from across the world into the Race to Zero to show municipal leadership at COP26, where national governments must strengthen their contributions to the Paris Agreement."
Date: Thursday May, 6 2021
Time: 1pm Eastern Time
What to do with hospital PPE and medical single- use plastic (mSUP) waste? (Webinar)
Join the Canadian Coalition for Green Health Care and their partners to discover what they are doing about PPE and medical single- use plastic waste in healthcare facilities, that has especially been increasing during the COVID-19 pandemic. For more information on the PPE mSUP project, click here.
Date: Tuesday May 11, 2021
Time: 1pm ADT| 12pm EDT| 9am PDT
Green Teams
"The Canadian Coalition of Green Health Care is collaborating with the Canadian Association of Nurses for the Environment (CANE) and University of Alberta graduate student, Joanna Law, to create a national picture of Green Teams. The goal of this project is to develop an interactive map that will display Green Team location and information from across the country. Its aim is to inform and inspire those looking to start a Green Team and provide networking opportunities for existing Green Teams."
They are looking for your help in carrying out this project. If you have a Green Team and would like to be included in this project, see here, for more information.
Warmly,
Your ONEIG Executive Team