Jason Turgeon
Wegman’s Cuts Wasted Energy and Costs, not "Wasted" Time Serving Customers
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
Amazon made some news at the end of last week when it announced plans to redesign its packaging and shipping practices across a variety...
Three Formal Efforts Tie Lean and Green Together
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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....
