As many of you may know, Andrew Winston (the co-author of “Green to Gold”) is releasing his new book “Green Recovery” later this summer. Luckily for us, he’s not keeping us waiting, and has posted a sneak-peek excerpt from the book that includes the chapter on “Getting Lean”.
I find Andrew’s writing to be equally as entertaining as it is accessible, and chock-full of examples and anecdotes gathered during his visits with corporations the world over. But what I love most are the little zingers interspersed throughout the text. Here’s one about greening IT infrastructure that made me laugh out loud:
“…What’s the most powerful thing you can do to reduce IT energy use? Every time I speak to tech companies or sustainability executives, I hear one theme over and over: the people who create the energy use have no clue how much it’s costing. The prescription:
Add the power bill to the CIO’s budget.”
Simple and straightforward? You bet.
Powerful and game-changing? Absolutely.
Now that’s the type of sustainability solution I can get behind.
