Water – Page 4 – Lean Six Sigma and the Environment

Simple checklist to green your office or restaurant

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Posted on November 16, 2012September 28, 2018
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Energy, Land and Building Use, Pollutants, Raw Materials, Solid Waste, Transportation, Uncategorized, Water

Portland is leading the charge once again. In 2006, the Portland Office of Sustainable Development (now the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability) commissioned research with dozens of local small businesses. The research revealed that businesses will embrace resource efficiency and sustainability if those services are offered in an easy, one-stop approach. Sustainability at Work is the

Lean and Green Improvement for the Whole Supply Chain

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Posted on August 20, 2012May 20, 2024
Posted in Carbon Footprint, External Article, Keivan Zokaei, Solid Waste, Water

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

20 Lean and Green organizations share environmental successes

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Posted on August 16, 2012May 6, 2014
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Energy, Land and Building Use, Lean Six Sigma Tools, Pollutants, Raw Materials, Solid Waste, Transportation, Water

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

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

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Posted on July 29, 2012February 21, 2022
Posted in Uncategorized, Water

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

Water quality volunteer program key to Iowa watersheds

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Posted on July 1, 2012April 6, 2020
Posted in Pollutants, Water

I recently attended the Iowa volunteer water quality monitoring certification program (Iowater). I am relatively new to water testing (other than checking pH levels in my hot tub). This was an excellent hands-on introduction for the beginner. For only $20, we got a full day of instruction (lecture and practice), got to keep all the

No one likes taxes, except for some environmentalists

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Posted on April 7, 2012March 31, 2020
Posted in Carbon Footprint, Energy, Pollutants, Solid Waste, Transportation, Water

The more I study solutions to our environmental issues, the more I get frustrated with our economic structure. The answer is pretty simple, but we fail to make any progress on it. Align our purchased price of an item with the true cost. If oil and coal have a negative impact on the environment, then