Tag: Turgeon
Wegman’s Cuts Wasted Energy and Costs, not "Wasted" Time Serving Customers
By Jason Turgeon:In the last couple of weeks, Mark's been hammering the midwestern grocery store chain Meijer for ruthlessly timing employees on checkout time...
Amazon’s "Frustration-Free Packaging is Lean and Green
By Jason Turgeon:
Amazon made some news at the end of last week when it announced that it will be redesigning its packaging and shipping...
Three Formal Efforts Tie Lean and Green Together
By Jason Turgeon:It looks like the Lean + Green movement is gathering steam. In the last week, I've seen three pretty big efforts that...
Lean meets Green in Burt’s Bees CSR
By Jason Turgeon:Burt's Bees started out making natural beeswax lip balm back in the '80's and ended up making hundreds of other similar body-care...
Using Lean in Car Manufacturing to Cut the CO2 Footprint
By Jason Turgeon:Edie.net, which bills itself as "Europe's largest environmental website," for what it's worth, has a good article today on something it's calling...
Lean and Green at the EPA
By Jason Turgeon:This is a Lean-meets-EPA powerpoint. Download the original here. Click the little window emblem in the upper-right corner of the embedded image...
Lean Applications in New Biofuels Production
By Jason Turgeon:
It seems that with oil nearing $140 a barrel, everyone is suddenly excited about improving efficiencies across the board in the world...
Lean meets Drinking Water
By Jason Turgeon:This week is National Drinking Water Week! If that doesn't excite you, think about the Lean implications of this dreadful story about...
Towards Greener Chemistry
By Jason Turgeon:As a regular part of my job, I visit large industrial sites (mostly sewage treatment plants-yum!). This means that I have to...
Google-Funded eSolar project shows signs of Lean Thinking
By Jason Turgeon:Google made headlines last year when it announced it that it was going to devote a significant chunk of cash to developing...
Lean and Green thoughts on China
By Jason Turgeon: China's everywhere in the news these days. It seems like you can't open a newspaper (or a feed reader) without reading...
A Bright Green Future: Applying Lean to the Whole Planet
By Jason Turgeon:In my first post a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the tension between what I called "new" and "old" environmentalism....
