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Archive for June, 2010

E-Bikes Take Off In Europe

It is no secret that many cities in Europe are bike-friendly, with ded­i­cated bike lanes, paths solely for use by bicy­clists, and gen­er­ally a higher accep­tance of bicy­cle in gen­eral traf­fic. Still, if you are a per­son of the more lazy kind, the idea to work out just to get to work or do your […]

Low Sustainability Ratings For Oil And Gas Corporations

An Oekom Study look­ing at 27 lead­ing oil and gas cor­po­ra­tions rates orga­ni­za­tions regard­ing their sus­tain­abil­ity. The study’s authors granted that cor­po­ra­tions try to do the right things, how­ever over­all their activ­i­ties are not focused enough and lack tan­gi­ble results. On a scale from A+ to D-, the small Aus­trian com­pany OMV ranked first with […]

Lean Means Sustainability — Step 4 — Improve

In ear­lier posts I wrote about “Define”, “Mea­sure” and “Ana­lyze” as part of Lean Six Sigma’s DMAIC cycle. The exam­ple I used in these pre­vi­ous posts showed that our office is not energy effi­cient, and we also ana­lyzed where and why. Remem­ber, the most impor­tant results of the Analy­sis phase are well deter­mined prob­lem causes. […]

Green Homes Sell!

Many builders attend­ing the National Green Build­ing Con­fer­ence stated that they have been able to sell sus­tain­ably built homes con­sid­er­ably faster than the tra­di­tion­ally built new homes that have been lan­guish­ing in today’s tough mar­ket. Espe­cially energy effi­ciency remains the fea­ture most impor­tant to con­sumers inter­ested in green build­ings. Good news is also that the price […]