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The Lean, Energy and Climate Toolkit

The Lean, Energy & Climate Toolkit offers Lean implementers practical strategies and techniques for enhancing Lean results—waste elimination, quality enhancement, and delivery of value to customers—while improving energy efficiency and reducing energy use, greenhouse gas emissions, costs, and risk. The toolkit assumes that you are familiar with Lean methods.

Please note that this version was created in August, 2011. For the most up-to-date version, please see the online version HERE.

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