Foreword
The Greening of Manufacturing
If there is a major surprise at this time of heightened awareness about the importance of energy efficiency, the potential impacts of climate change, and the effects of environmental degradation, it is that relatively little in the way of thought leadership has been devoted to what we now commonly call green manufacturing. Even less thought and hard analysis has been devoted to developing a systematic operational approach that is useful to manufacturers in managing their relationship with the environment and that also makes sense from a business perspective.
Yet, we know that customers are increasingly searching for products that leave a minimal environmental footprint. Customers, governments, standards ...
