GreenLantana
Happy Earth Day from Lantana
Written by Dani Robinson-Holland In recognition of Earth Day on April 22, Lantana explored ways to contribute to environmental responsibility as individuals and as a company. For this year’s Earth…
Read MoreClimate Change: “Not the End of the World” Book Review
Written by Julie Wright Every day, news headlines on climate change warn us of the negative direction the world is headed. So much so, I’ve become hesitant to open the…
Read MoreConnecting the Dots to Make Food Systems Sustainable
References: (1) https://nphw.org/Themes-and-Facts/2023-Food-and-Nutrition (2) https://www.reuters.com/world/us/farmers-call-climate-action-farm-bill-washington-rally-2023-03-07/ (3) https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2014/07/29/12/34/toward-a-healthy-sustainable-food-system (4) https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/farm-bill
Read MoreClimate Change: Taking Action for Equity
Climate change is impacting human lives and health in a variety of ways. It threatens the essential ingredients of good health – clean air, safe drinking water, nutritious food supply,…
Read MoreEarth Day 2021: Lantana Partners with My Green Doctor
The “Us” in Climate Justice
Somewhere Out There is a Tiny Lantana Forest
The Journey Past the Mailbox (AKA Happy Earth Day 2020)
greenLantana: Reducing the Web’s Carbon Footprint
In 2019, greenLantana made a big decision—to offset the environmental impact of our web presence. Lantana employees want to better their community and environment. We avoided the environmental impact of…
Read MoreCleanMed Conference
In May, I attended the CleanMed conference in Nashville where professionals from across the industry including clinicians, architects, hospital administrators, policy consultants, sustainability officers, hospital vendors and a very nice veterinary specialist discussed sustainability in their healthcare institutions.
Read MoreLantana Selects Cool Effect Projects to Offset Carbon Emissions
How does a distributed company in the health information technology industry offset emissions from business travel? Set criteria, choose a vendor, and ask the staff to vote!
Read MoreCarbon Offsets for Lantana Business Travel—Where to Put Our Money?
Lantana’s business travel is a major source of our corporate greenhouse gasses emissions that we can mitigate by buying carbon offsets. How do we choose where to put our money?
Read MoreWhen You Have to Travel for Work, Invest in Carbon Offsets
Lantana is a distributed company that does not manufacture products. We do not have corporate offices to retrofit for energy efficiency, so what can our business do to reduce its impact on the planet? One important option is to address our greenhouse gas emissions from business travel.
Read MoregreenLantana: The Case Against Commuting
One of the many benefits of a distributed environment is flexibility. At Lantana Consulting Group, employees establish productive work environments wherever Wi-Fi can reach. Rather than joining millions of…
Read MoreWe go greenLantana
greenLantana is the name of our collective effort to measure, evaluate, and improve the corporate, social, and environmental impacts of our Lantana way of doing business. As the name suggests, our initiative emphasizes environmental responsibility and includes support for “corporate social responsibility”[1] and the “triple bottom line”.[2]
Read MoreHow green is greenCDA?
The answer is, “potentially, pretty darn green.” I was invited to speak at the 2nd Annual Global Healthcare Conference where the topic is the greening of healthcare – reducing the environmental impact of care delivery in the US and around the world…
Read More2nd Annual Global Healthcare Conference: The Green Revolution in Health Information Technology
Uncovers environmental impact of electronic health records and a strong tie to standards in the incentive to reduce visits.
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