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media type="file" key="Senate bill 3586.mp3" =Green Hospitals, Healthy Hospitals Act of 2008=

This [|Act] was introduced by Senator Clinton in order to provide loans to hospitals and nonprofit health care centers to create green building technologies, waste management, and other environmentally friendly practices to improve patient outcome, decrease costs, and improve on employee performance. The Green Hospitals, Healthy Hospitals Act of 2008 requires hospitals trying out for their program to, have sufficient security, have such maturity date, be repayable in such installments, and to be subject to such other terms and conditions, these terms would be decided by the Secretary of Health and Human Services [|Micheal Leavitt].

Senator Hillary Clinton
In 2000, New York elected Hillary Cilnton as Senator. She helped family’s that had suffered from 9/11, epically with health care. She sponsored many bill in health care and the environment. In 2006 she was reelected and was the first woman to run for president. In 2006 Senator Clinton was re-elected with a 67%. To read more about Hillary Clinton click [|here.]



Background
Senator Clinton introduced this bill because our Hospitals have been one of the top waste-producing industries. The American Hospital Association and Environmental Protection Agency agreed to set goals and reducing hospital wast by 50% by the year 2010. Hospitals have many environment harming wast. This includes batteries containing mercury and used medical supplies. Hospitals are running every day all the time so the lights and heating run. Switching to energy efficient appliances will lower the price and energy used. Watch the video below to see many ways to make building more enegey efficient.

Videos and Pictures
media type="youtube" key="0MJId_0wTFI" height="344" width="425" This is one way to make a "Green" Building.

These solar panels create sustainable energy.

These nuclear power plants are bad sources of energy, because they make radioactive waste.