My fiance and I live in Austin, TX and until recently we had two cars. Since I work from home, my car usually sat idle most days which was a huge waste… furthermore it needed maintenance often since it was an old car.  My cost / mile was pretty bad. I recently got rid of

Placing carbon footprint labels on consumable products are a growing trend.  In fact in the UK, Tesco, a large supermarket chain, plans to put these labels on all of their 70,000 products.  Is this a fad or are carbon footprint labels here to stay? Carbon footprint labels started in 2007.  They first appeared on potato

  Fossil records indicate that humans have only been present on Earth for less than 1% of 1% of the Earth’s existence.  This equates to about 10,000 years and is referred to as the Holocene age. The Holocene era is notable for the wide spreading of mammals (particularly Humans) and flowering plants. Despite the relatively

“Continuous improvement” systems are only effective at accelerating an organization towards it’s aim (or focus).   If the aim of an organization is to make money by ravaging and destroying the earth then a “continuous improvement” program will help an organization do just that. I hope that there aren’t management teams out there aiming to

Six Sigma uses the DMAIC cycle as a project roadmap. There are some advantages for using DMAIC… 1. Clear roles and responsibilities 2. Stated goal (at project level) 3. Easy to understand statistical tools 4. Common standardized language 5. Statistical approach This is great for complex processes in large organizations that have pre-existing mountains of

A few years ago I picked up an interesting book from the Strand’s $1 stand. It was published in 1983 titled “The Next Economy” by Paul Hawken.  Since we are now almost three decades beyond the publish date I thought to myself…  “Lets see how far off Paul Hawken was in his predictions”. What I

Exactly one year ago today, I was driving through Jamestown, VA. I saw a billboard for  a “Historic Jamestown Fort and Powhatan Village”. I decided on a whim to stop in and check it out.  As I made my through the historic park I met a man dressed in Native American garments tending to an