Lean Sustainability

CHANGE FOR THE BETTER – What is good for our planet is good for business

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Lean Means Sustainability – Step 1 — Define

Increas­ing effi­ciency is the name of the game. The objec­tive is to reduce waste and get more value into the prod­uct. Thus improv­ing prof­its and decreas­ing envi­ron­men­tal impacts. Lean Man­age­ment, Six Sigma and other man­age­ment philoso­phies offer tools to get sus­tain­abil­ity efforts right. For instance, Six Sigma offers DMAIC – Define, Mea­sure, Ana­lyze, Improve, Control. […]

The First Carbon Tax

I got this from the “Irish Times”: “There is noth­ing new about the con­cepts of green or sus­tain­able eco­nomic growth. The Cam­bridge econ­o­mist Arthur Pigou wrote about these ideas as far back as 1912. His famous exam­ple was a fac­tory which belched forth smoke and thereby entailed “social costs” which, he believed, the man­u­fac­turer should […]