Employee Engagement – Page 8 – Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

EC 017: Applying Lean and Green at Plywerk with Kjell Van Zoen and David Hall

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Posted on January 21, 2017January 1, 2023
Posted in Employee Engagement, Kjell Van Zoen, Podcast, Raw Materials, Solid Waste, Transportation

Summary In this podcast, I conduct my first interview, and it turned out great! I met up with lean consultant and former owner of Plywerk, Kjell Van Zoen, along with Dr. David E. Hall, sustainability consultant for Plywerk and professor at Portland State University. We discuss how Kjell and Dave worked together to make Plywerk more eco-conscious,

EC 016: Employee “Green Bag” Sessions and New Co-working Space

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Posted on December 31, 2016July 28, 2022
Posted in Employee Engagement, Podcast

Summary In this podcast, I discuss a new approach for employee engagement called Employee “Green Bag” Sessions, which is similar to the concept of the “Brown Bag” education sessions. I explain the topics we’ve covered over the past year, including biking to work, taking the bus, solar panels at home, net zero homes and electricity

EC 014: Lean and Green Workflow Improvement – The 8 Wastes

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Posted on October 27, 2016October 30, 2016
Posted in Employee Engagement, Kjell Van Zoen, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Podcast

Summary In this podcast, I play the recording of the presentation I gave with fellow Lean and Green expert Kjell Van Zoen at the Provender Alliance conference in Hood River, Oregon on Oct 6, 2016. We talk about Lean basics (single piece flow, 5S, kaizen, Taiichi Ohno, value and culture) and focus on our personal experiences

EC 013: Interview #2 on e6s Methods Podcast about Greening Your Lean Event

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Posted on September 23, 2016November 10, 2020
Posted in Employee Engagement, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Podcast, Raw Materials, Solid Waste

Summary For episode 13, I’m playing another interview I had with e6s Methods podcast, hosted by Aaron Spearin. We go over tips for greening your 5s events. I also go over this in detail in Episode 9 of my podcast, which you can find at LeanSixSigmaEnvironment.org. In this episode, we go beyond just the green discussion,

EC 012: Setting up a Green Team at Work

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Posted on September 2, 2016August 21, 2025
Posted in Employee Engagement, Energy, Podcast, Solid Waste, Water

Summary For the next podcast, I wanted to talk about setting up and improving an environmental (eco) green team at your work. This is one of the early activities you can do to improve sustainability at your job, or within organizations you work with. I discuss my own experiences with creating and maintaining green teams at

Lean makes our economy more responsible – the SunPower story [Planet Lean]

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Posted on May 17, 2016May 15, 2024
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Employee Engagement, Energy, External Article, Lean Six Sigma Tools

SunPower is a vertically integrated solar company that designs and manufactures solar cells and panels for residential roofs, commercial buildings and wholesale power plants. They share how they merge the circular economy with lean principles to help reduce their impact on the environment. With a strong semiconductor background, they already had a strong foundation for

Boeing Solid Waste to Landfill Sorting Event (Dumpster Dive) at Everett from April 2015

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Posted on May 16, 2015May 16, 2024
Posted in Employee Engagement, External Article, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management, Solid Waste

This video was posted on the Boeing website in 2015 to share a trash (waste) sort event at their Everett facility with their 747, 767, 777 and 787 production lines. The goal was to collect data and determine which team is diverting the most trash from the landfill. The winning team was the 777 program,

Karen Hester of Adnams Reflects on “Creating a Lean and Green Business System”

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Posted on December 15, 2013May 27, 2024
Posted in Book Review, Employee Engagement, External Article, Keivan Zokaei, Management

Reflecting on the book ‘Creating a Lean and Green Business Systems: Techniques for Improving Profits and Sustainability’ describing how Mr Ford and Mr Toyoda came up with the original idea of “LEAN management”, to improve manufacturing processes, it is apparent that the systems have gone far beyond the original concept now reflecting Corporate Social Responsibility

Danish Lean & Green Network is Launched

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Posted on July 5, 2013May 20, 2024
Posted in Consortium, Employee Engagement, Keivan Zokaei, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Management

This new network is the first Lean & Green network in Denmark and is established in cooperation with the British consultancy SA Partners, who will provide hands on and profound coaching. The goal is to attrach members who are leaders on both a corporate and employee level, that are operating or have the desire to

Creating a Lean and Green Business System – 2degrees Network

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Posted on April 23, 2013May 20, 2024
Posted in Book Review, Employee Engagement, External Article, Keivan Zokaei, Lean Six Sigma Tools

Keivan Zokaei says businesses can no longer treat lean and green as a “nice to have” but it is now a “must have” and should be a top priority. His new book, “Creating a Lean and Green Business System: Techniques for Increasing Profits and Sustainability”, is packed with case studies and examples of leading firms