Introduction
Much work has been done in the area of sustainability in manufacturing in the United States. Virtually everyone agrees that much more needs to be done to improve energy efficiency in manufacturing, reduce waste, improve the development Industry And Competitive Analysis Example and management of the workforce, and design and manufacture products that use our scarce material and human resources in a more optimal manner. The National Association of Manufacturers (NAM) states on its website:
The NAM and our member companies are committed to working with Congress to establish sensible federal climate change policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions, while maintaining a competitive playing field for U.S. companies in the global marketplace.
However, on the NAM website as of December 30, 2008 there is not one paper telling manufacturers about any best practices they could adopt to promote sustainability. It appears that NAM has no such task force studying how manufacturing concerns can create their current products in a more sustainable manner or begin to advance the state of the art in designing and producing the next generation of products that are more sustainable, efficient, effective, and less harmful to the environment. Possibly NAM and state associations promoting manufacturing and technology could undertake and publish detailed research across the tens of thousands of manufacturers to identify the sustainability oriented practices that have helped improve the environment, helped improve the productivity of their workers, and helped improve their bottom line.
The Current Situation
Much information already exists on “green manufacturing.” Conferences are being held. Books are being written. Engineering schools are focusing on sustainable engineering to attract students who can find great jobs in meeting the future manufacturing environments which will be embracing sustainability principles. A guick GoogleTM search reveals the following:
Green Manufacturing News
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: Sustainability in Manufacturing: Recovery of Resources in Product and Material Cycles: Günther Seliger: Books.
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America Is Fat and Dying!
25 years ago the percentage of overweight and obese people were minimal compared to what we see today. In fact the experts are now agreeing that America is reaching a 70% obesity rate. 7 out of 10 people are overweight or obese. People! I have to tell you this is insanity! How can 7 out of ten people be obese? It just doesn’t seem logical or possible so I decided to do a little test.
Over the course of a week, every time I went out to dinner in various restaurants I brought with me a little notepad and decided to start counting people in the restaurant. How many of these people around me were fat? How many of these people around me were obese? The results that I came up with were astounding and sadly enough the experts and the doctors seem to be correct.
As I looked around the restaurant and watched people dining, as I looked around the restaurant and watched the new arrivals come through the front door and be seated it Classification Of Industries was true, 6 to 7 people out of 10 were fat. Now I’m not talking just a little overweight, they were fat. Not only were they fat, they were there to get even fatter!
So now I realize that these findings and statistics and reports seem to be true so I asked myself why are we destroying ourselves with food? Why are we killing ourselves with food? Why do we battle against the tobacco companies because of the danger of smoking and yet continue to allow the food industry to kill us at a much more alarming rate than cigarette smoking ever did?
It is for this reason, among many others, that myself and a team, a small team, have made a commitment to blog on these kinds of issues. Issues related to the food industry, issues related to the obesity epidemic, issues related to America’s health, and lifestyle.
This blog will be dedicated to informing the public on current food industry trends, healthy eating practices, healthy lifestyle choices, current diets and exercise programs that work, exposure of diet and exercise fads that don’t work, and anything else related to the food, fat lass, weight-loss, health and wellness, exercise, organics, and anything else that we decide might fit into the fatal food categories.
It’s time to take a stand America! The food that we are eating and the food that we are being sold is in fact fatal. The lifestyles that we are living are in fact fatal. Nobody wants to be a fatality and the sad thing is that most people don’t realize the alarming dangers that we are bombarded with daily with our food choices.
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