Category Archives: Sustainability

Hale Celebrates its First Anniversary: Women’s Rights, Health, Education and of Course…Mobile

This month, Beth and Zoe celebrate the official one-year anniversary of Hale Advisors, Inc. – a partnership that stemmed from shared savvy business acumen and a similar vision for company growth and success. As a way to commemorate, it was … Continue reading

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Healthcare Makes Green Purchasing a Higher Priority

By Beth Bengtson The healthcare industry plays a vital role in both human health and the health of the planet. This message was the focus of this month’s CleanMed conference in Denver, Colorado presented by Health Care Without Harm and … Continue reading

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Does Our Health Care Environment Support Healthy Outcomes?

By Beth Bengtson As I look at the work that Practice Greenhealth, HealthCareWithoutHarm, and Kaiser Permanente are doing on the topic of greener medical supplies, it makes me wonder if our health care environment is actually healthy.  Of all the … Continue reading

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A Sustainable Business for Social Good: G3Box

As a socially conscience business, we believe it is important to promote sustainable practices throughout the healthcare and medical field. We were inspired by this story of four engineering students from ASU who turned a class project into a real … Continue reading

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Letting Food Be Your Medicine – Farmaceuticals

By Beth Bengtson Each year we go through the same cycle regarding our health: we get sick, go to the doctor, he or she prescribes us medicine, and we get better in most cases.  This series of events is our … Continue reading

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PharmaCares™: An opportunity to reduce medical waste and do good for the pharmaceutical industry.

Since we have been highlighting the issues around medical waste, we thought it was time to discuss some of the innovation approaches some organizations are taking to deal with the issue.  And the timing was perfect as friend of ours … Continue reading

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Finally a Sustainability/CSR Ratings Comparison Tool – a look at JustMeans Insights ™ and the Pharmaceutical Industry

By Beth Bengtson Recently 3BLMedia/JustMeans launched JustMeans Insights ™, a data visualization platform for measuring, managing and comparing sustainability performance. The platform provides sustainability practitioners, media and investors with the ability to compare 100+ different environmental, social and governance (ESG) … Continue reading

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National Prescription Drug Take Back Day, Saturday October 29th 2011

By Beth Bengtson As part of our recent post about How to Dispose of Unused Medications?,we want to highlight that there is a National Prescription Drug Take Back Day this Saturday, October 29th from 10am till 2pm (local time) for … Continue reading

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What is PIE (Pharmaceuticals in the Environment) and Why I Should Care?

By Beth Bengtson As the next post in our series on intersection of sustainability and health, we thought it was important to provide people with an understanding of PIEs (Pharmaceuticals in the Environment). The following is from the EPA on … Continue reading

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How to dispose of unused medications?

By Beth Bengtson Post script: With all the “global weirding” events in the last week on the East Coast (Earthquake and Hurricane) we feel this discussion is even more needed and timely. My journey on this topic started with a … Continue reading

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