Cool companies : how the best businesses boost profits and productivity by cutting greenhouse gas emissions /

Will reducing greenhouse gas emissions be a roadblock to growth? A growing number of the best companies are looking beyond the political debate on global warming to see a strategic opportunity to increase profits and productivity. These "cool" companies have worked to cut heat-trapping emi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Romm, Joseph J.
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Washington, DC : Island Press, [1999]
Subjects:	Industrial productivity. Just-in-time systems. Industrial efficiency. Sistemas justo a tiempo (Administración) Eficiencia industrial. Emissionsverringerung. Schadstoffemission. Umweltbezogenes Management.
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Table of Contents:

How to Be a Cool Company
Strategic Planning in the Greenhouse
Henry Ford and Toyota
Buildings
Design for Workplace Productivity
Computers and Clean Rooms
Cool Power
Factories--Part I: Motor Systems
Factories--Part II: Steam and Industrial Processes
Beyond Benchmarking
What Price Carbon Dioxide?
Conclusion Carbon Dioxide and Productivity
Appendix There Is No such Thing as the "Hawthorne Effect"
Company Index
General Index.