Boston Medical Center is known for taking care of some of the city’s poorest residents. But the state’s largest safety net hospital also wants to be known as something else: Boston’s greenest hospital.
BMC, spread over several city blocks in the South End, is on track to cut its greenhouse gas emissions 50 percent by 2020, twice as aggressive as the goal of most other city hospitals, according to BMC and two groups that encourage hospitals to cut energy use.
Greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, are produced by burning fossil fuels, such as oil and natural gas, and contribute to climate change.