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Libraries and sustainability
Frimley Health Library & Knowledge Services are proud to have signed the Green Libraries Manifesto. We are committed to embedding sustainability in decision-making around resources and facilities and promoting carbon literacy.
Our plans for the future include:
- Making sustainability a key objective in the library strategy
- Promoting e-Learning for Health's Carbon Literacy for Healthcare programme
- Continuing to reduce paper by using online forms such as library registrations and book / article requests
- Using reusable marketing materials to cut down on waste paper
- Increasing our range of online resources such as eBooks and eJournals
- Reducing our use of plastic e.g. stopping the use of plastic library cards
- Saving energy through motion sensor lighting and shutting down PCs when not in use
- Recycling our withdrawn books, either through books sales, donating to other countries, or using Book Rescuing services
For links to more information and resources, please check our Green Libraries padlet.
Sustainability in Health Care - Resources
Reports / guides
Green Plan Guidance – updated guidance to help NHS organisations develop their green plans
NHS England, 2025
Climate change and health: embedding ethics into policy and decision making
Nuffield Council on Bioethics, Jan 2025
About the Clinical Waste Segregation – A guide for nursing staff in the safe management of healthcare waste programme – an animated guide to support front line nursing staff
NHS England, 2025
Open Access eBook - Attaining the 2030 Sustainable Development Goal of Good Health and Well-Being
CPD / courses
Small Steps to Sustainability – Monthly webinars from the South East Greener NHS team.
Centre for Sustainable Healthcare courses
Various courses designed for health professionals, educators, sustainability and estates managers
Carbon literacy for healthcare
Online programme via the NHS Learning Hub
Tools / resources
Nursing for the Planet
An online resource from the Nursing Network at the Centre for Sustainable Healthcare
RCEM GreenED initiative
An initiative from the Royal College of Emergency Medicine to measure and reduce the environmental impact of Emergency Departments.
Letters to the Earth
Creative activities, programmes and workshops.
Sustainability eBooks
27 e-books on the subject of sustainability are available with an NHS OpenAthens password via the Knowledge and Library Hub.
Examples include:
- 50 Ways to Help the Planet: Easy ways to live a sustainable life Berry S., Hachette, 2018, 9780857836304
- An Introduction to Sustainability: Environmental, Social and Personal Perspectives Mulligan M., 2nd ed., Taylor and Francis, 2017, 9781315519432
- Sustainability for healthcare management: A Leadership Imperative Rich C., Singleton J. and Wadhwa S., 2nd ed., Taylor and Francis, 2018, 9781351997676
View the full list of titles.
Did you know..?
Using the library to borrow books is sustainability in action! From 2021-23, the number of loans for our top 50 most popular books saved the equivalent of 208 book purchases. That's the equivalent of saving 3 trees...
