GreenLantana
Climate 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, and safe shelter – and has the potential to undermine decades of progress in global health. Between 2030 and 2050, climate change is expected to cause…
Read MoreEarth Day 2021: Lantana Partners with My Green Doctor
Lantana is celebrating Earth Day 2021 by announcing a new partnership with My Green Doctor, an environmental sustainability program for healthcare practices. Our greenLantana initiative works on improving the long-term environmental benefits and sustainability of our own business operations and the wider health information technology industry. We see the flows of information as key leverage…
Read MoreThe “Us” in Climate Justice
Our health is affected by climate change and its consequences, such as natural disasters and extreme weather. Just last year alone, wildfires burned the western US, Australia, the Amazon rain forest, Siberia, Angola, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The COVID-19 pandemic traveled the world due the perfect storm of a loss of environmental buffers…
Read MoreSomewhere Out There is a Tiny Lantana Forest
One morning, a happy email from Marte, our Administrative Guru & Event Coordinator, popped into my inbox about trees: “From our items we have ordered from Eco Promotions, they have planted another tree on our behalf.” My first thought was, “Cool,” and my second thought was, “Wait. Another tree? We have more?” Among Marte’s many…
Read MoreThe Journey Past the Mailbox (AKA Happy Earth Day 2020)
The world is different. Maybe your feelings are a grab bag of spiraling anxiety, anger, fear, relief, loneliness, and grief, and your usual coping skills aren’t available right now. After a particularly rough shelter-in-place week, a friend recommended I get a walk in (past the mailbox) for a good twenty minutes and take a good,…
Read MoregreenLantana: 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 the brick and mortar office and work commute by becoming a distributed company, and we have a drive to further reduce our environmental impact. We…
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 commuters across the United States, we embrace the freedom of working anywhere. This Earth Day, we celebrate our commitment to reducing Lantana’s carbon footprint…
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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