The team at Kaiser Permanente’s Santa Monica Medical Offices commitment to adopting an ambitious set of green practices was recognized by Santa Monica’s Certified Green Business program in December 2018. The first step was creating a “Green Team” dedicated to this effort. Green Team KP staff members include; Joanna Bialy, Keren Shvarz and Elene Hamilton. They focused on areas of energy efficiency, waste reduction, sustainable procurement and employee training. “We engaged and trained the staff around recycling and reuse of items, added more recycling bins, found ways to reduce and reuse paper, adjusted water flow in our sinks, found ecofriendly cleaning products, replaced disposable lunchroom items with reusable items, and much more,” says Joanna Bialy, department administrator of the Santa Monica Medical Offices. Some of the Green Team’s accomplishments in achieving Santa Monica’s Green Business Certification include: Setting computer settings to turn off after a period of