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What’s New in Green Packaging?

Green Packaging has Evolved Not a Whole Lot in terms of Innovation, but Much in Terms of Approach
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Will ‘Resilience’ Replace Sustainability?

The Key Differentiator for Renewable Energy in Buildings has Moved on From Sustainability to Resilience
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Climate Models Underestimate Cooling Effect Of Sulfur Aerosol Particles In The Atmosphere

New Study: Suggests that Future Models Should Consider the Effect of Transition Metal Ions in the Role of the Oxidation of Sulfur Dioxide
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Airline Industry Favors Global Carbon Offsets

Options Considered: Mandatory Offsetting Program, Mandatory Offsetting that Would Raise Revenue and a Global Emissions Trading Scheme
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Green Steel -- New Steelmaking Process

MIT Research: Greatly Reduces the GHG Emissions Associated with Production, While Lowering Costs and Improving the Purity/Quality
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Preparing Supply Chains for the Green Future

Understanding Cap and Trade and Carbon Taxes
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Vendor Compliance Is Green

Vendor Compliance Optimization is key to building a truly Green Supply Chain. Learn how.
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Case Study: Combining Transportation Planning with Network Design to Reduce Transportation Costs and CO2

Learn how one manufacturer incorporated carbon emissions into its optimal supply chain network design.
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SCDigest Letter on the Green Supply Chain

e-version of the full 16-page version of the SCDigest Letter on the Green Supply Chain 2009
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White Paper: Benchmarking the Perfect Order

How well are companies in the consumer goods to retail channel doing in terms of perfect order achievement? This study looks at results from shipments from over 4500 suppliers - and the results are surprising.
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Green Supply Chain News: Murphy Warehouse Co. Finds Green Distribution Provides Strong Business Case

CEO Richard Murphy Lays Out the Real Details in Excellent WERC Conference Presentation
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Green Supply Chain News: March by Unilever towards Zero Waste to Landfills in Manufacturing Continues On

ll Factories in the US and Canada Added to Growing List; Company Also Says it has Reduced CO2 Emissions by 1 Million Metric Tons Since 2008
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Green Supply Chain News: The New Key Question - What is the Real Level of ''Carbon Sensitivity?''

Recent Halt in Global Warming has Some Researchers Redoing Climate Models, Though IPCC said to be Increasing Upper Limits of Impact to Cataclysmic 6-7 Degrees C
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Green Supply Chain News: Is it Time for Natural Gas-Powered Trains Too?

BNSF to Launch Pilot by the Fall, as Most Other Rail Carriers Also Evaluating the Technology
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Green Supply Chain News: Maersk Line Parent Company Releases 2012 Sustainability Report

Maersk Line Reduces CO2 Emissions per Container by 25%, but Slow Steaming is Key Driver =
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Green Supply Chain Comment: Massachusetts Town Tilting at Its Two Windmills

Residents Says Just Two Turbines Making them Sick, Creating Huge Noise, and Want them Gone; An Industrial Machine is an Industrial Machine
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Green Supply Chain Comment: PepsiCo Struggles Might Give Pause to Aggressive Healthy Food Strategies as Part of Sustainability Programs

CEO on Hot Seat as Healthy Food Strategies Lead to Losing Share in Core Soda Business
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Green Supply Chain Comment: Could Walmart's Green Supply Chain Push Lead to Different SKU Bases?

New Walmart Program Can be seen as Successor to Top-Down Cost Reduction of GM's Lopez 20 Years Ago; What Happens when GHG Emissions Reduction and Supply Chain Cost Decreases Diverge?
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It's not an impossibility, but it's certainly not a slam-dunk and never has been. The healthcare debate has basically sucked all the oxygen out of the room.

Frank O'Donnell, president of the activist group Clean Air Watch, on prospects for the US Senate passing Cap and Trade legislation any time soon.

 
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Supply chain visibility - Anticipation and rapid notification of problems - Collaboration via accurate and complete supply chain performance history - and now, Green Supplier Scorecarding

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