What’s New The dMASS blog is now available for your Kindle! Go to Amazon to subscribe today. Last week, Howard Brown was a keynote speaker at the NAEM Forum, “EHS & Sustainability Success in the New Economic Era,” and spoke at a TEDx event in Los Angeles. Visit the dMASS website for a summary of [...]
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What’s New Don’t forget that Howard Brown will be speaking at the October 22 TEDx event in Los Angeles. The theme of the event is, “Fabric as a Medium for Beauty.” Howard will speak about how innovative fabric technologies and applications will play a major role in the dMASS revolution – the massive, sweeping improvement [...]
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Materials,
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Resource Performance
What’s New On the blog this week, you don’t want to miss Howard’s post, “Turning Environmental Metrics Inside Out,” which was originally published on NAEM’s Green Tie blog. Howard makes the case that despite all the hard work going into CSR, ESG, and SRI ratings, “The present cacophony of indicators, measurement systems, and analytical models [...]
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I have a new definition of waste, one that might surprise you. For any organization, waste is everything that isn’t needed to deliver value to customers. Given this definition, achieving zero waste at a company or facility is a very high hurdle, but one that ultimately should be overcome. It wasn’t long ago that waste [...]
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A generation or two ago, products changed. Though younger people didn’t know what a gramophone was, nor an 8-track player, someone could explain these things to them by pointing to similar physical substitutes – the record player and the cassette player. Today, products are being replaced by invisible technology. In 20 years, when a young person asks [...]
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Businesses and other organizations provide tools that deliver functions (which hopefully create wealth). Thinking about function is a great place to start with learning, designing, or rethinking just about anything. Many students at my children’s school struggle with basic skills, from recognizing numbers to reading. Yet I’m always amazed by the capacity of these young [...]
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