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The Social, Business, and Policy Environment for Green Manufacturing

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The chapter introduces readers to the pressure for change, the themes of the transitions taking place, and the steps suggested for moving forward in the social, economic, and policy environment in which green manufacturing resides. The concept of sustainability related to manufacturing with an emphasis on the metrics, standards, and best practices associated with instituting green manufacturing on the path to sustainability is defined. The drivers for change and progress and the difficulties, hurdles, and benefits associated with transitioning to green operations are discussed.

Part of this chapter is work duplicated from work written by the authors as part of the UC Berkeley Sustainable Packaging Project (Towards Sustainable Packaging: Metrics, Standards & Best Practices) (http://lma.berkeley.edu/sustainablepackaging/), a project funded by the Sustainable Products and Solutions Program.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    This subtitle was inspired by the book, Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A better world is possible [3].

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    A World Resources Report estimates that in the year 2000 global manufacturing and construction industry emissions accounted for 21% of world’s greenhouse gases [4]. Additionally, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 2007 report states that industry made up 19.4% of the total anthropogenic GHG emissions in 2004 in CO2 equivalents ([5], Fig. 2.1). In the US, industrial emissions accounted for 2,510 Million Metric Tons CO2 equivalents in 2008, a quantity larger than that year’s transportation, residential, or commercial emissions [6].

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    This comment was prompted by a conversation with Tony Kingsbury, SPS, Haas School of Business at Berkeley, where he discussed the usefulness of “a red face test.”

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Onsrud, H., Simon, R. (2013). The Social, Business, and Policy Environment for Green Manufacturing. In: Dornfeld, D. (eds) Green Manufacturing. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6016-0_2

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