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Lean Produces Significant Resource Productivity Improvements with Important Environmental Improvement and Sustainability Implications. Through the adoption of a combination of Lean strategies (identifying and retooling the value chain, adopting product-aligned, cross-functional manufacturing, designing for manufacturability, and taking a “whole system view”), Boeing has substantially reduced the amount of energy, raw materials, and non-product output associated with its manufacturing processes. Overall, Boeing has realized resource productivity improvements ranging from 30 to 70 percent when Lean initiatives are implemented, and continues to improve on its overall efficiency and pollution output per unit of production. Results such as these have led many, including. | NRDC Issue Paper October 2008 Missing Protection Polluting the Mississippi River Basin s Small Streams and Wetlands Lead Author Jon Devine Natural Resources Defense Council Contributing Authors Mark Dorfman Kirsten Sinclair Rosselot NRDC The Earth s Best Defense Missing Protection Polluting the Mississippi River Basin s Small Streams and Wetlands About NRDC NRDC Natural Resources Defense Council is a national nonprofit environmental organization with more than million members and online activists. Since 1970 our lawyers scientists and other environmental specialists have worked to protect the world s natural resources public health and the environment. NRDC has offices in New York City Washington . Los Angeles San Francisco Chicago and Beijing. Visit us at . Acknowledgments The authors of this report would like to thank reviewers Gabriella Chavarria and Nancy Stoner of NRDC and Jim Murphy of the National Wildlife Federation for their assistance. We would also like to thank The Joyce Foundation and The McKnight Foundation for their generous support. NRDC Director of Communications Phil Gutis NRDC Marketing and Operations Director Alexandra Kennaugh NRDC Publications Manager Lisa Goffredi NRDC Publications Editor Anthony Clark Production Tanja Bos tanja@ Copyright 2008 by the Natural Resources Defense Council. For additional copies of this report send plus shipping and handling to NRDC Publications Department 40 West 20th Street New York NY 10011. California residents must add sales tax. Please make checks payable to NRDC in . dollars. The report is also available online at policy. This report is printed on paper that is 100 percent post-consumer recycled fiber processed chlorine free. Natural Resources Defense Council I 2 Missing Protection Polluting the Mississippi River Basin s Small Streams and Wetlands Table of Contents Executive Summary 4 CHAPTER 1 Nutrient Pollution and Its Effects in the Mississippi