Habitat for Humanity – Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

E096: Interviews from IISE Annual Volunteer Service Project at Southcenter Store near Seattle

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Posted on October 1, 2022October 2, 2022
Posted in Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Nonprofit, Podcast, Solid Waste, Volunteering

In this podcast, I extract the audio from a published video by IISE that recapped our last volunteer service project in Seattle in May 2022. We have been conducting these volunteer events prior to each annual conference since 2012, and this was the first one we’ve had since the pandemic. You can read about prior

EC 050: Update on Lean Six Sigma and the Environment Progress

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Posted on May 25, 2019May 25, 2019
Posted in Podcast, Solid Waste

In this podcast, I share an update on my recent work to apply Lean and Six Sigma techniques to reduce environmental impacts. I discuss the following topics: Monthly Coaching Calls Green Banana Paper (Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia) IISE Annual Conference Volunteer Service Project Excellence in Sustainable Development Award Clothing nonprofit work Links IISE Sustainable

EC 044: Lean Principles in the Building Reuse Industry (BMRA)

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Posted on April 2, 2019April 6, 2019
Posted in Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Podcast, Solid Waste

In this podcast, I share a webinar that I gave with Matt Horvat of Lean Portland, and Kelly Stevens from The Rebuilding Center. We were asked to talk about our experiences applying Lean to the building reuse industry, which includes work over the past few years with The Rebuilding Center and Habitat for Humanity Restore

EC 042: Process Improvement in the Building Reuse Industry

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Posted on February 12, 2019February 12, 2019
Posted in Land and Building Use, Podcast, Solid Waste

In this podcast, I read an article I wrote for the Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA), a nonprofit organization whose mission is to advance the recovery, reuse and recycling of building materials. I share my thoughts on how I hope the reuse industry can follow the path of other industries to embrace the concepts of