1st Edition
Cool Companies How the Best Businesses Boost Profits and Productivity by Cutting Greenhouse Gas Emmissions
By Joseph J. Romm
Copyright 1999
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
286 Pages
by
Routledge
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'Cool Companies' turns on its head the idea that measures to avert global warming and climate change will pile massive costs on to the industrial sector. It shows how the smartest companies have been able to make money through the improvements that reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Industry is going to have to adjust to the new tax and regulatory regimes being introduced around the world,... Read more
Preface * 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? * Carbon Dioxide and Productivity * There Is No Such Thing as the 'Hawthorne Effect' * Notes * Company Index * General Index
Biography
Joseph J Romm is executive director of the Centre for Energy and Climate Solutions. He was until recently the director of the Office of Energy Efficiency and renewable energy in the US department of Energy, giving him access to and hands-on experience of leading companies around the world. He is author of Lean and Clean Management (1994).
