Green Gold or Effective Environmental Health and Safety Management Using the Team Approach

Green Gold: Japan, Germany, the United States and the Race for Environmental Technology

Author: Curtis Moor

Environmental imperatives are forcing companies - and governments - across the globe to change the way they think about business and investment. The conventional wisdom in the United States is that environmental constraints are bad for business; Green Gold shows how misguided the common view is. Curtis Moore and Alan Miller go behind the scenes in Germany, Japan and elsewhere to show how nations are staking their economic futures on the proposition that world competitive success will depend on developing technologies aimed at protecting the environment. Marshaling newly available evidence, Green Gold outlines a radical rethinking of America's industrial future. Environmental technologies - cleaner energy sources, more efficient industrial processes, environmentally superior products of every kind, from light bulbs to automobiles - offer more than remarkable economic opportunities; as these become necessities, not luxuries, the ability to produce cleaner, more competitive technology may determine America's economic viability in a global marketplace. The foreign success stories are stunning. German and Japanese companies, working closely with governments, now dominate the new huge and growing world markets for environmental technology in everything from solar power to clean steel mills. The United States, often the original source of ideas and innovation, continues to fall behind, held back in part by powerful domestic energy lobbies. The authors tell previously untold stories in settings from German power plants to Japanese government agencies. They uncover the reasons for American losses and show how California has been the key U.S. exception in challenging the lead of Germany and Japan. They analyze the major industries and profile innovative business leaders. Highly readable, filled with dramatic evidence, Green Gold is the business book environmentalists have wanted for years and the environmental book businesses have needed - a wake-up call to American busi

Publishers Weekly

Twelve years of political and business leadership hostile to environmental protection has dissipated the U.S.'s once dominant position in a wide range of crucial technologies, according to this important study. Examining the technologies and policies of other nations, Moore, a lawyer and journalist, and Miller, director of the Center for Global Change at the University of Maryland, cite remarkable environmental and economic successes in Germany and Japan. While the U.S. has been unable to move technology from basic research to the marketplace, those two countries bridged that gap using technologies developed by U.S. taxpayer money. Moore and Miller delineate ways in which the U.S.'s declining share of global markets in cars, power-generating equipment and solar-cell production is related to our inferior environmental standards. They look at California's innovative policies and the failure of national policies, and tender their own recommendations. (Aug.)

Library Journal

In eight chapters, Moore and Miller describe the U.S. indifference toward environmental technologies often developed with taxpayer funding through the Department of Defense, Environmental Protection Agency, or Department of Energy. They succinctly catalog these missed opportunities-breakthroughs in fuel cells, electric power generation, car design/efficiency-that could have an enormous environmental and economic impact. By contrast, Germany and Japan, the authors believe, have foreseen the environment and their economies as mutually dependent, not antagonistic, partners. Two concluding chapters provide recom- mendations for change. The discussion is lively, timely, and clear. Recommended for all collections.-Michael D. Cramer, Virginia Polytechnic & State Univ. Lib., Blacksburg

Booknews

Curtis, a former counsel to the US Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, and Miller (director, Center for Global Change, U. of Md.) go behind the scenes in Germany, Japan, and elsewhere to show how nations are staking their economic futures on developing new technologies aimed at protecting the environment. The authors uncover the reasons behind the US' failure to keep up with Germany and Japan's innovations in environmental technology, and discuss new technologies such as cleaner energy sources and more efficient industrial processes. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Table of Contents:

	Preface to the Paperback Edition
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
Pt. I	New Realities - and Realists	17
Ch. 1	Germany's Miracle	19
Ch. 2	Japanese Opportunism	39
Ch. 3	The World Market and American Decline	59
Pt. II	Losses and Possibilities	77
Ch. 4	U.S. Policy Failures	79
Ch. 5	California Sunshine	105
Pt. III	The New Industries	125
Ch. 6	Wheels	127
Ch. 7	Clean Power Technologies and Cleaner Fuels	141
Ch. 8	The Inevitable Solution: Zero-Polluting Energy Sources	154
Pt. IV	The Future	177
Ch. 9	Green Prophets	179
Ch. 10	Facing the Future: Policy Recommendations	194
	Epilogue	213
	Notes	223
	Index	265

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Effective Environmental, Health, and Safety Management Using the Team Approach

Author: Bill Taylor

An important and highly actionable blueprint for optimum workplace safety

Health and safety management is an ongoing concern in today's workplace. Effective Environmental, Health, and Safety Management Using the Team Approach provides today's safety professionals with an excellent resource for protecting their organizations' most important resource-their employees. The author, a seasoned health and safety professional, provides a blueprint for installing a system that's been proven to reduce illness and injury on any job, in any industry, with a simple, logical approach that compares safety management to production and quality control-issues today's managers readily understand.

The system uses a team approach to get every level of an organization involved in the process of managing safety issues, with the ultimate goal being the development of a safety culture in which every employee has a personal interest in protecting their lives, their property, and their environment.

An ideal resource for industry managers as well as graduate-level courses in workplace safety and health, this text offers such special features as:
* Important checklists, including OSHA-required training, OSHA-required inspections, and OSHA-required postings and labeling
* Numerous health and safety resources, Web site addresses, and contact information for related organizations
* Real-world examples that illustrate important health and safety issues
* Helpful charts and forms to facilitate implementation of the team approach
* Frequently asked questions and answers for users of the system