| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 218 pages) |
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Includes index. |
| Contents |
Lean and Green: Profit for Your Workplace and the Environment; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Myth That Environmental Practices Are Bad for Business; Part I: The Four Steps for Creating a Leanand Green Organization; 1 Question Wasteful Practices; 2 Gain Lean and Green Endorsement Using Business Language; 3 Collaborate to Achieve Lean and Green Goals; 4 Track Progress for Environment and Profit; Part II Real-Life Examples of Putting Lean and Green into Practice; 5 Make a Commitment to Being Lean and Green; 6 Set Up an Environmental Management System. |
| Summary |
When it comes to believing that business can be profitable and environmentally sensitive, cynics abound on both sides. But in Lean and Green, Pamela Gordon proves that capitalism and environmentalism are not mutually exclusive-quite the contrary. She shows how "green" business practices enable organizations to save millions, even billions of dollars each year. Lean and Gree chronicles over one hundred examples of how people in twenty different organizations around the world-from clerks, farmers, and city employees to chemists and executives-have strengthened environmental practices and the bala |
| Subject |
Industrial management -- Environmental aspects.
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Gestion d'entreprise -- Aspect de l'environnement. |
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Industrial management -- Environmental aspects |
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Milieumanagement. |
| Other Form: |
Print version: Gordon, Pamela J., 1959- Lean and green. 1st ed. San Francisco : Berrett-Koehler Publishers, ©2001 1576751708 (DLC) 2001025308 (OCoLC)45958049 |
| ISBN |
1576751708 (acid-free paper) |
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9781576751701 (acid-free paper) |
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9781605094076 (electronic bk.) |
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1605094072 (electronic bk.) |
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9781609943639 (electronic bk.) |
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1609943635 (electronic bk.) |
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