Sustainability may be more … much more … than being green, but that doesn’t mean one should ignore the great article that recently popped up over on Chief Executive.The article essentially starts off by noting that while CEOs would argue that global warming is a legitimate universal problem to be solved, they may not be […]
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Last November, the Supply Chain Management Review ran an article on The Sustainable Supply Chain that noted that being sustainable is now a source of competitive advantage and a matter of corporate survival rather than a costly inconvenience. The article, based on a study by A.T. Kearney and the ISM that surveyed a diverse […]
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Even though it’s a topic the doctor mentions regularly (see AMR’s 7 Supply Chain Best Practices, and Procurement Lead Time Optimization, and The Benefits and Risks of Global Product Development, for example), it’s something that he rarely dedicates a post to. However, since, Supply and Demand Chain Executive recently published an article by Heather […]
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In advance of the upcoming Green Purchasing Summit in November in Miami, Florida, EyeForProcurement has released their Green Purchasing Report that summarizes the results of the Green Purchasing Survey they conducted in June - July 2007. The survey, which polled 188 procurement professionals primarily across North America, Europe, and Asia across the automative, […]
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Green Purchasing or Environmentally Preferable Purchasing (EPP) refers to the procurement of products and services that have a lesser or reduced effect on human health and the environment when compared with competing products or services that serve the same purpose. Global warming is an (essentially) indisputable fact*. Although one can dispute how bad […]
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In McKinsey’s May 2007 Web Exclusive Investing in Sustainability: An interview with Al Gore and David Blood (of Generation Investment Management), we are introduced to an extended investment model that fully integrates sustainability into its core. But more than that, we are reminded of some basic truths by Blood & Gore that we should […]
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Today is Earth Day and you can find out what’s going on in your area by starting with the Earth Day Network. In the spirit of Earth Day, here’s the next post in my ongoing Green series.
A number of interesting news items have hit the wires since my last green post. The University […]
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Fuel-efficiency is still the craze. Consider the new design by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Cambridge, Boeing, and Rolls Royce for a new mid-range aircraft that travels at 0.8 mach, runs considerably quieter than current generation jets, and uses 25% less fuel, as described in this Economist article. GE […]
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It’s been a while since my last green post, but that’s simply because Tim Minahan of Supply Excellence has been doing such a great job on the topic as well, especially considering his recent set of posts on Sustainable Supply.
However, since I’ve accumulated approximately 40 links on green and green technology since my last post, […]
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It’s been a couple of months since my last green post, and the call of Kermit has been taken up by some rather large corporations in the interim. As highlighted in Supply Excellence and Fortune, Adobe Systems has become the first company to receive a platinum award from the non-profit U.S. Green Building Council, Wal-Mart […]
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