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BJBC
Better Jobs Better Care
CAST
Center for Aging Services Technologies
IAHSA
International Association of Homes and Services for the Ageing
IFAS
Institute for the Future of Aging Services
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AAHSA's Long-term Care Solution Project

Environmental Stewardship

Learn More About LEED Certification
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) Green Building Rating System™ encourages and accelerates global adoption of sustainable green building and development practices through the creation and implementation of universally understood and accepted tools and performance criteria.

Simple Steps for Greening Your Organization
Protecting the environment isn't only good for the earth. It can also be good for your bottom-line. Use this fact sheet to get some ideas of what your organization can do to be more environmentally friendly.

Serve God, Save the Planet
This book and Web site provide inspiration and tips for Christians going green.

ENERGY STAR for Healthcare
ENERGY STAR is a joint program of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Energy helping us all save money and protect the environment through energy efficient products and practices.

Southern Baptist Environment & Climate Initiative
Learn more about the Southern Baptist declaration on the environment and climate change.

Towards Common Ground
Help the Aged produced this report "to understand what makes a community ‘sustainable’ for older people and how this outcome can be achieved, both now and in the future."

Residents' Green Handbook
(View .pdf or .doc version)
This handbook is full of tips for residents in retirement communities to help reduce their impact on the environment.

Green Guide to Health Care
This Guide provides the health care sector with a voluntary, self-certifying metric toolkit of best practices that designers, owners, and operators can use to guide and evaluate their progress towards high performance healing environments. To learn more, visit their Web site.

Health Care Without Harm
Health Care Without Harm is an international coalition whose mission is to transform the health care sector worldwide, without compromising patient safety or care, so that it is ecologically sustainable and no longer a source of harm to public health and the environment.

Earth 911
Earth 911 empowers the Earth’s citizenry with community-specific “actionable” environmental information for you to use in everyday life for the purpose of living responsibly by contributing to the solution of sustainability.

National Council of Churches' Eco-Justice Program
This program works to provide an opportunity for the national bodies of member Protestant and Orthodox denominations to work together to protect and restore God's Creation.

The Regeneration Project
The mission of the Regeneration Project is to deepen the connection between ecology and faith.

National Religious Partnership for the Environment
Guided by biblical teaching, the Partnership seeks to encourage people of faith to weave values and programs of care for God's creation throughout the entire fabric of religious life.

Coalition on the Environment & Jewish Life
This organization has put environmental protection on the agenda of the organized Jewish community and made the case to elected officials and decision-makers that protecting the environment is a moral and religious obligation.

Evangelical Environmental Network
The Evangelical Environmental Network seeks to educate, inspire, and mobilize Christians in their effort to care for God’s creation, to be faithful stewards of God’s provision, and to advocate for actions and policies that honor God and protect the environment.

Elder-Friendly, Earth-Friendly Design
Learn why "sustainable design," or "green building," is ideally suited in many respects to senior housing and care environments.
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