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Green Health Care 07/27/2008 Karma: 0  
Recently, I started thinking about how almost every level of the health care industry has an environmental impact. When searching for a dentist in San Francisco, I found listings for "Green Dentists". There is a new movement dedicated to reducing the overall environmental impact of human health care: Green Health Care.

In Green Health Care, toxic-free buildings, literacy around local environmental health issues, and the use of safe, effective, precaution-based medicine are some of the basic ideals behind this new system of medicine.

I love it! But I wonder: Do most insurance companies recognize it? Is it only taking off in places like San Francisco?

A very cool website dedicated to it:

www.teleosis.org
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