Jason Turgeon

Jason Turgeon
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Wegman’s Cuts Wasted Energy and Costs, not "Wasted" Time Serving Customers

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By Jason Turgeon:In the last couple of weeks, Mark's been hammering the midwestern grocery store chain Meijer for ruthlessly timing employees on checkout time...

Amazon’s "Frustration-Free Packaging is Lean and Green

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By Jason Turgeon: Amazon made some news at the end of last week when it announced that it will be redesigning its packaging and shipping...

Three Formal Efforts Tie Lean and Green Together

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By Jason Turgeon:It looks like the Lean + Green movement is gathering steam. In the last week, I've seen three pretty big efforts that...

Lean meets Green in Burt’s Bees CSR

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By Jason Turgeon:Burt's Bees started out making natural beeswax lip balm back in the '80's and ended up making hundreds of other similar body-care...

Using Lean in Car Manufacturing to Cut the CO2 Footprint

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By Jason Turgeon:Edie.net, which bills itself as "Europe's largest environmental website," for what it's worth, has a good article today on something it's calling...

Lean and Green at the EPA

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By Jason Turgeon:This is a Lean-meets-EPA powerpoint. Download the original here. Click the little window emblem in the upper-right corner of the embedded image...

Lean Applications in New Biofuels Production

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By Jason Turgeon: It seems that with oil nearing $140 a barrel, everyone is suddenly excited about improving efficiencies across the board in the world...

Lean meets Drinking Water

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By Jason Turgeon:This week is National Drinking Water Week! If that doesn't excite you, think about the Lean implications of this dreadful story about...

Towards Greener Chemistry

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By Jason Turgeon:As a regular part of my job, I visit large industrial sites (mostly sewage treatment plants-yum!). This means that I have to...

Google-Funded eSolar project shows signs of Lean Thinking

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By Jason Turgeon:Google made headlines last year when it announced it that it was going to devote a significant chunk of cash to developing...

Lean and Green thoughts on China

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By Jason Turgeon: China's everywhere in the news these days. It seems like you can't open a newspaper (or a feed reader) without reading...

A Bright Green Future: Applying Lean to the Whole Planet

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By Jason Turgeon:In my first post a couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the tension between what I called "new" and "old" environmentalism....