SWE - Spring 2008 - (Page 52) ENGINEERING WORLD TUCK SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT DARTMOUTH forward to working with her to ensure California has access to the most innovative and effective solutions our industry has to offer.” Mapping Pollution Want to know how many pollutants are in the air from nearby factories? You can, thanks to Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business professor, Andrew King, Ph.D., along with a group of Dartmouth students and researchers from Harvard Business School and Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. They created MapEcos, an interactive Web site to monitor the environmental performances of more than 20,000 industrial facilities across the United States. Launched last November, MapEcos incorporates U.S. Environmental Protection Agency data on toxic pollution with survey results outlining steps plant managers are taking to protect the environment. The site is intended to provide an evenhanded view of the MapEcos is an interactive Web site to monitor the environmental performances of more than 20,000 industrial facilities across the U.S. nation’s industrial environmental performance in part by giving managers a platform to publicize company efforts. The federal government’s Toxic Release Inventory, a database track- ing the waste management practices of companies across a wide array of industries, lists each industrial facility appearing on MapEcos. Facilities on the map are color coded according to emissions levels, revealing the 52 SWE SPRING 2008 http://www.boeing.com/collegecareers http://www.boeing.com/collegecareers http://www.boeing.com/collegecareers
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