BALANCING PROFITwith PURPOSE
We are dedicated to improving the long-term environmental health and well-being of staff, partners, the communities they live in, and the planet. Our commitment to sustainable business practices was formalized through the greenLantana initiative in October 2015. The initiative is a collective effort to measure, evaluate, and reduce Lantana’s environmental footprint while improving the social impact of the Lantana’s daily operations. It emphasizes environmental responsibility, corporate social responsibility, and the triple bottom line—known as people, planet, and profit.
Through greenLantana, we help our staff members reduce their environmental impact and consider how to reduce the environmental impact of our own IT systems and practices and those of our clients.
In 2021, Lantana became a partner with My Green Doctor. We will collaborate on blogs, articles, and resources, and we’ll spread the word about what each organization has to offer.
As the project develops, we will continue to learn from other companies and organizations and to share our experience seeking out those, like us, who work outside a single brick and mortar office and those who are involved in health IT.
Read more about our greenLantana work
greenLantana 2024 Accomplishments: One Thing at a Time
2024 represented a huge year of growth for greenLantana, our organization’s special interest group that focuses on the close relationship between personal green choices, larger ecological issues, and public health. One of our members, Lindsey Dunham-Maher, captured the theme of our personal goals in 2024—small changes add up. Lindsey said, “I was really overwhelmed trying…
Read MoreHappy 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 Day theme—“Planets vs. Plastic”—our environmental interest group, greenLantana, had a spirited conversation about our favorite alternatives to single use items, services that reduce plastic waste,…
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 articles, often finishing them feeling depressed and as if my actions won’t make a difference. This is what drew me to Hannah Ritchie’s new book,…
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, 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 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.
Read MoreHIMSS11: greenCDA and greenCCD
Introduces greenCDA – a strategy that simplifies the creation and processing of a particular CDA implementation guide
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