Dr. Karen Danenhauer is a US-trained emergency physician who has been living and working in New Zealand since 2015. She loves spending time with her family outdoors and has become passionate about protecting the environment, after witnessing so many climate disasters in the last decade and with future generations in mind. She has been leading the Green Team at her hospital in rural Taranaki and undertook a 3-month sabbatical in late 2023 to delve deeper into sustainability issues in healthcare. She is author of the blog SustainableDoctor.co and is constantly trying to shrink her carbon footprint, at work and at home.