The health care sector has an outsized impact on the Earth’s changing climate, responsible for an estimated 8.5% of all greenhouse gas emissions in the United States. At the same time, the mission of health care—to improve an individual’s health—sits at odds with its negative contributions to the environment and public health.

But does providing health care to patients have to contribute to worsening the health of other people and the planet?

Increasingly, health care professionals and organizations are saying no. A green health care system is attainable, and a three-way win: a win for a patient’s health, a win for the health of the planet and public health, and a win in the form of cost savings. Read more at Penn Today.