University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine was the first school in the country to appoint an associate dean for sustainability.
Health sector is responsible for 8 to 10% of carbon pollution in the United States and a quarter of all global health care carbon pollution, Mallon said.
Mallon: Health care organizations, in general, and academic health systems in particular, with missions of protecting and promoting health, are major climate polluters. Read the Entire Article
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Senay Ataselim-Yilmaz, Chief Operating Officer, Turkish Philanthropy Funds, writes that philanthropy often solves the very problems that stems from market failure. Some social issues, however, cannot be tackled by questioning the return on investment.