Transportation – Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

E122: Applying Lean at the City of Grand Rapids with Alen Ganic

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Posted on January 16, 2025January 17, 2025
Posted in Employee Engagement, Government, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Transportation

In this episode, I share an interview I had with Alen Ganic, an experienced Lean and Six Sigma coach who spent 14 years with the City of Grand Rapids implementing Lean and has also setup numerous volunteer groups and organizations to help those in need. He shares examples of project improvements he worked on in

E104: How Process Improvement Can Help Address Climate Change with David Saunders

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Posted on August 24, 2023October 12, 2023
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Employee Engagement, Energy, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Pollutants, Transportation, Volunteering

In this episode, I speak with David Saunders, who is a retired Quality consultant and has focused his next career on using improvement tools to reduce the impact of climate change. He is a Certified Climate Change Professional (CC-P) through the Association of Climate Change Officers (ACCO), and volunteers with the Chesapeake Climate Action Network.

E099: Rethinking Humanitarian Aid with Andrew Parris

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Posted on February 24, 2023February 28, 2023
Posted in Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Transportation

In this podcast, I share a video of a speech given by Andrew Parris, Process Excellence Manager at Medair. The presentation was given at the Berlin Science Week 2021 that was organised by ETH Zürich. Andrew discusses how continuous improvement and Lean can make nongovernmental organization (NGO) money go further. He also mentions there are

E090: Guest Interview on Environmentally Conscious Nation Podcast from Aug 2021

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Posted on January 12, 2022September 29, 2022
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Nonprofit, Podcast, Pollutants, Raw Materials, Solid Waste, Transportation, Water

In today’s episode, I share the interview I had with D.J. Vagnetti, host of the Environmentally Conscious Nation podcast. I don’t think his podcast is still active, otherwise I would recommend listening directly to the episode. This interview assumes that the audience doesn’t know much about process improvement or Lean or Six Sigma, so if

E084: Everyday Innovation and Ideas Programs in the State of Colorado

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Posted on July 9, 2021September 5, 2021
Posted in Employee Engagement, Government, Management, Podcast, Transportation

In this podcast, I facilitated a webinar on engaging employees to gather innovation and improvement ideas with two agencies within the State of Colorado. The event was hosted by the Colorado Lean Network. You will first hear from Corey Niemeyer from the Colorado Department of Public Safety (CDPS) about their IDEA center, which stands for

E062: Warehouse Optimization to Feed the Hungry with Rise Against Hunger

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Posted on March 27, 2020March 30, 2020
Posted in Employee Engagement, Land and Building Use, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Podcast, Transportation, Volunteering

In this podcast, I interviewed Courtney Hudson, Distribution Warehouse manager with Rise Against Hunger. They were awarded the inaugural “Excellence in Sustainable Development” Award in 2019. She shares the improvements they made to their warehouse operations to increase the number of packaged meals they send to countries in need. They are working to achieve SDG

What does Pearl Harbor have to do with my electric car rental?

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Posted on March 20, 2020March 20, 2020
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Energy, Transportation

With the recent COVID-19 shut down, I’m finally getting around to some action items on my list. One of which was to write this article. On my trip home from Green Banana Paper in Kosrae last year, I decided to spend a few days in Honolulu hitting the beaches and checking out the island. To

E059: Lean Six Sigma Workshop – Gresham Employees and Green Businesses

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Posted on March 3, 2020March 10, 2020
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Employee Engagement, Energy, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Podcast, Pollutants, Solid Waste, Transportation, Water

In this podcast, I share a presentation I gave on Jan 14, 2020 with the City of Gresham employees and Gresham Green Businesses. I was asked to teach them about Lean and Six Sigma methods by Gregg Hayward (who kicked off the event) and Shannon Martin. I’ve worked with both of them in the past

E058: Toyota and the Earth Charter

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Posted on December 22, 2019March 10, 2020
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Podcast, Pollutants, Solid Waste, Transportation

In this podcast, I re-read a recent post I made about the Earth Charter written by Toyota in 1992, which is their commitment to the environment. This is one of the early examples of corporate sustainability, and it happens to come from the company that brought us Lean, with their focus on “respect for people”

1992 Earth Charter key to driving Toyota’s environmental efforts

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Posted on December 15, 2019April 17, 2022
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Energy, Transportation

If you’ve studied Lean methods, you know that Toyota is the company that is responsible for developing the infrastructure behind almost all of the methods. But what I found very interesting is that they are also a leader in sustainability and corporate environmental leadership. Coincidence? I don’t think so… Over the last decade, most major