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Quickly and confidently detect when your utility bills need attention

Managing energy bills can difficult, especially if you live in a climate with four diverse seasons in a year, and you work for a company with fluctuations in equipment usage. The changing weather and work load makes it difficult to determine when the numbers are too high, or there is an actual reduction in usage.

How the internet negatively impacts the environment

Facebook recently released its carbon footprint report for 2011, and they calculated their impact on the environment at 285,000 metric tons of carbon dioxide equivalent. That’s the equivalent of 55,882 passenger vehicles or 7,307,692 trees, according to the EPA Greenhouse gas calculator. The majority of that comes from their data centers, which power their servers, and make the

Statistical analysis must support your conclusions, or you’re just another ‘climate denier’

There is so much confusion about climate change and weather fluctuation, that even as a statistician, I have to stop myself from observing “climate change” during a heat wave, drought, or downpour. Let’s review the definitions of weather and climate. There is a simple definitions on the NASA website, “Weather is what conditions of the atmosphere are

Lean and Green Improvement for the Whole Supply Chain

A large retail business was looking to reduce its environmental impact throughout the entire supply chain (from raw material production to product manufacturing to distribution and sales throughout the UK), and reached out to S A Partners and Keivan Zokaei for assistance, using their Lean and Green approach. They selected a single Stock Keeping Unit

Yet another reason why the cards are stacked against energy reduction

It’s hard enough to get people to invest in energy reduction conservation or upgrades, but it’s even more frustrating when you realize that you need to deduct the company or individual tax rate from the savings, which reduces the return on investment or payback period. The main reason why energy reduction is not on the

20 Lean and Green organizations share environmental successes

The best way to convince your management to embrace sustainability is to show the success of others, especially competitors and customers who are doing the right thing. Pamela Gordon has compiled success stories from 20 international organizations in her book, Lean and Green: Profit For Your Workplace and the Environment. The companies highlighted in the

Saving the equivalent of 4.5 million bottles of milk at Arla Foods

Arla Foods UK supplies a full range of fresh dairy products to the major retailers and foodservice customers, such as Cravendale, Anchor, Lurpak and Tickler. The intervention team led by Keivan Zokaei began by looking at waste at a very high level through the creation of a mass balance (or system boundary map) of all

How many times do you flush the toilet per day? You might be surprised!

5! Is that correct? It can’t be that many… In the book, Green Intentions, author Brett Wills discusses ways to reduce different environmental impacts by understanding the value stream of those processes within a business. Green Intentions Under the topic of water reduction, he explains how to estimate the amount of water coming from various