by Head Green Guru | Dec 9, 2018 | Green Events, Tips
By: Ana Toepel, Green Impact, December 2018 The holiday season is upon us, and for many people this means good cheer and fun times with family. At the same time, the holidays can create harmful impacts on the planet from the increased use of resources. According to...
by Head Green Guru | Dec 7, 2018 | Environmental Health
By Ana Toepel, Green Impact The Program on Reproductive Health and the Environment (PRHE) and Environmental Health Initiative (EHI) at UCSF are leaders in advancing the prevention of disease caused by harmful chemical exposure. On September 13, UCSF launched an...
by Head Green Guru | Oct 8, 2018 | Climate Change, Green Events
I attended several events the week of the Global Climate Action Summit September 12-14 and I must vent one of my gripes. I was excited to attend Spirit Rock’s event Loving the Earth. Spirit Rock is a meditation center nestled against the hills of West Marin and...
by Head Green Guru | Oct 8, 2018 | Best Practices and Tools, Sustainability, Tips
By Ana Toepel and Deborah Fleischer, Green Impact, (originally run on UCSF’s Sustainability Website) When you load a ream of paper into the copy machine, you might not realize the environmental impacts your choice of paper could have. Now there is a new choice...
by Head Green Guru | Oct 8, 2018 | Environmental Health, Sustainability
By Ana Toepel and Deborah Fleischer, Green Impact, July 2018 (originally run on UCSF’s Sustainability Website) Summer might be over, but with the unseasonable warm fall we are having in California, it seems timely to highlight how to protect ourselves and the...
