Videos

Lean and Green 3-part Series (New)
(3:08, 3:56, and 3:34)

Jennifer Tice tells what works when integrating lean and green, offers 12 Lean tips for environmental professionals, and describes how Lean and Green can go viral in an organization.

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Jennifer Tice, an author of the Lean and Environment Toolkit, is a Senior Associate at Ross and Associates Envronmental Consultants.

Lean and Sustainability Unleashed
(1:58)

Tim Larson speaks passionately about unleashing creativity and sustainabilty by learning to see the waste. Tim is a principal at Ross and Associates Envronmental Consultants. Ross and Associates played a major role in creating the Lean and Environment Toolkit. Once you've seen the video, you can learn more about seeing "the waste" in The Kaizen Workshop guide..

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The Lean and Green Summit

This video captures the Lean and Green Summit and addresses the business case for Lean and Green.

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Lean Ecology: a perfect pair

Columbia Paint and Coatings, a Sherwin-Williams company, used Lean to reduce their environmental impact and increase their productivity—at the same time!

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Tools

The Kaizen Workshop: How to play an active, influential role
A Guide for the Environmental Health & Safety Professional
(FREE)

If you care about the environment, health, or safety, how do you make the most of a Lean kaizen workshop? A new guide, The Kaizen Workshop: how to play an active, influential role, answers that question. The Kaizen Workshop gets to the point in 14 concise pages with 13 tables, figures, and illustrations. Download the guide now.

Take a fresh look at your operations. Use this worksheet to find opportunities to reduce your environmental impact and improve productivity.

Lean and Environment Toolkit
(FREE)

Offers practical strategies and techniques to improve Lean results—waste elimination, quality enhancement, and delivery of value to customers—while achieving environmental performance goals. (From the EPA.)

Lean and Energy Toolkit
(FREE)

Guides users in reducing energy use, cost, and risk—while improving Lean results. (From the EPA.)

Case Studies
(FREE)

From the Washington State Department of Ecology.

Check out the final report of the Washington Lean and Environment Project. The long-range improvements are even better than reported in the Lean Ecology video, which was released prior to the final report.

About Lean Ecology

Lean Ecology is built on these 3 principles:

• Kaizen – continuous improvement by eradicating waste

• Sustainability in manufacturing and service processes

• Respect for life

Taiichi Ohno, the "father" of the Toyota Production System (also known as Lean), said that "the basis of [Lean] is the absolute elimination of waste." This aggressive reduction of waste gives companies breakthrough productivity gains.

The "absolute elimination of waste" aligns with the goals of those who care about pollution prevention and reducing environmental impact. Lean provides a proven method to make those reductions a reality.

Lean Ecology brings the two viewpoints to the same side of the table.

Links

GREEN PARTNER

Future State Solutions is a major resource for green value-stream mapping software.