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What are we to make of the US Department of Labor Bureau of Labor Statistics being tasked - and funded - to count the number of 'green' jobs i…

The EPA has recently released their study of the costs and benefits of the Clean Air Act and its proposed rather draconian expansion. A reasonable per…

The most important thing in life is not what you did in the past but what you do next. That is particularly important if you happen to be Bill Simon -…

If it weren't for the fact that thousands of manufacturers all over the developed world are diligently and relentlessly reducing their carbon emis…

By most accounts we are on the verge of shutting down the US government. To that I can only say, thank goodness. Much more government and manufacturin…

You would never know it by reading the current lean literature, but twenty five years ago lean manufacturing was perceived to be primarily an alternat…

Suppose I were to ask you to count the apples in your house and tell me the result. Seems like a simple enough proposition, but as soon as you start t…

The other day I took a jab at managers who run purchasing guided by standard costs, describing how life might be if they were to run their homes by th…