Lean and Green Archives

Helping Improve Employee Engagement Through Sustainable Practices 0
- Engagement, Guest Post, Lean and Green
- January 25, 2023
Unsplash Employees want to work for a business that shares their ethics and values. They want to know that their employer has a moral compass and that they are authentically interested in solving the world’s major issues. Employees also want to feel empowered by their employer. Empowered employees create a culture of community and are
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Boost Productivity with Smarter Workplace Safety Workshop 0
- Lean and Green, Sharing Best Practices
- February 11, 2019
At the beginning of this year I attended a Connecticut Business and Industry Association (CBIA) Workshop on Boost Productivity with Smarter Workplace Safety. The workshop was conducted by CONNSTEP that is a Manufacturing Extension Program (MEP) partner that I have worked with many times over the past twenty years. The training session was led by
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Guest Post: Encouraging Your Employees To Recycle More 0
- Guest Post, Lean and Green
- July 23, 2013
I am pleased to introduce this guest post Lee Newell, who has experience in recycling programs. He has some advise for engaging employees in a recycling program that you can use in your workplace. This advice is applicable for most new initiatives as you will see. ———————————————————————————- Recycling isn’t just a way of saving money,
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Lean Eliminates DOWNTIME, Green adds FEWER 0
- Lean and Green
- April 22, 2013
Today is Earth Day 2013 whose theme is the Face of Climate Change. I am not an expert in this topic and nor I am going to talk about it here. However, in celebration of the environment today I thought I would share some thoughts on the use of Lean and Green together for the
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Lean and Green from the Connecticut DEEP 0
- Lean and Green
- August 7, 2012
Lean and Green has been a topic here a number of times because of its importance and synergy. Lean manufacturing practices and sustainability are conceptually similar in that both seek to maximize organizational efficiency. Where they differ is in where the boundaries are drawn, and in how waste is defined. Sustainability expands the definition of waste
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Guest Post: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle…0
- Guest Post, Lean and Green
- September 8, 2011
Today’s post is by Rich Hoover, the Director of Sustainability for Libbey Glass, global manufacturers of drinking glasses and other glass tableware. Libbey has been working at integrating Lean into their global operations since 2004 and have recognized sustainability as a business imperative since early 2010. In this post Rich explains the important hierarchy of the
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