Get lean and go green: Role for “Eat-ology” behavior modification

Eat well to get well.

mprovement in functional performance is considered an important management goal in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Pulmonary rehabilitation is now considered as an evidence based intervention to achieve an improvement in functional capacity as well as other management goals such as improved health status and reduction in breathlessness. 1 Although exercise training i...

Get-Up-And-Go Hospitals and Hotels

Get-up-and-go Hospitals and Hotels Don't get me wrong, I am all gratitude as a patient, a congenital insomniac, and love things going on at night. We live in times of financial entrepreneurism. Thatcherism rules. At the moment there is little hint of extension into the tourist industry on the part of hospitals. This could be changed a bit. John Burton delicately touched on the subject in this j...

Lean , green , mean , obscene ... ?

What is efficiency? And is it sustainable? Animal production and consumption reconsidered.

Can Green Be Lean

Is Lean Necessarily Green?

In this paper, we investigate the environmental performance of lean supply chains using carbon dioxide emissions as the key performance indicator. Lean is based on the premise that compressing time reveals hidden quality problems and that their resolution leads to more efficient, cost-effective business processes. If time compression always implies lower emissions, then a leaner system is alway...