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January 2010
Volume 2 Issue 1 |
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Call for Presentations
2010 Lean and
Green Summit
The 2010
Lean and Green Summit agenda
committee has sent out a Call for
Presentations beginning immediately.
What is the Lean and Green Summit?
With so many “green conferences” in
the marketplace, why should you
consider attending the Lean and
Green Summit? The Lean and Green
National Summit will uniquely bring
together the passions and knowledge
of two committed groups:
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Advocates of operational
excellence who see the
implications lean principles
have in sustainability, and
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Environmental advocates wanting
to move industry toward
sustainability and want to learn
how lean operations can
contribute to that goal.
Full
Article
Were we
successful stabilizing global population at about 9
billion people in a post-expansionary society, say by
2040, how would this play out? What to do may be
counterintuitive if we’re not to replicate the fate of
long ago societies. For instance, population has now
leveled off in Japan and many European countries, but
their instinct is to fear for continuation of their
societies, especially when buffeted by in-migration from
less developed countries. They have a “graying problem,”
and want to increase the birth rate. Their health care
and retirement systems are financially strained. They
were set up assuming that a big population at the bottom
of an age pyramid could pay for a few oldsters at the
top, but if population stabilizes with many people
living to old age (success), the age demographic will be
nearly flat. So what would this portend for even the
definition of work, much less working age?
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Article
Webinar Series
Continues
In December Brett Wills,
Director of the Green Enterprise Movement and author of
Green Intentions, kicked off a series of three webinars
focused on Carbon Footprinting. The first two webinars are
archived and available for viewing. The remaining webinar is still open for registration.
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