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GM To Use Less Potent Greenhouse Gas To Keep Cars Cool

New Air Conditioning Refrigerant For 2013 Models: Considered Less Potent Than The Current Most Commonly Used Refrigerant
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Cap and Trade Is Dead. Long Live Cap and Trade.

Western Climate Initiative Unveils A Rough Blueprint For A Cap-And-Trade Program That Would Begin Operating In 2012
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UPS Sustainability Report: Sets Goal to Improve Fuel Efficiency by 20%

UPS Sets New Target to Improve MPG Of Its U.S. Package Delivery Fleet
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Next Steps on Climate and Energy

Now That The Climate Bill Has Failed Yet Again, What Next?
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New 'Smart' Metal Could Mean Cool Cash for Consumers, Less CO2

University Researchers Believe That 'Smart' Metal May Reduce Electric Bills While Increasing Efficiency Of Current Cooling Systems
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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: Summary of the Annual BP Statistical Review of World Energy

Energy Usage and Production Mostly Drop at Levels not Seen Since 1982; Coal, Surprisingly, Reaches Largest Share of Global Energy Since 1970
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Green Supply Chain News: Plastic Versus Paper Versus Re-Usable - the Great Shopping Bag Smackdown

Despite the Hatred for Plastic Bags, They Just Might be the Best Green Choice; Natural Gas Base, not Oil
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Green Supply Chain News: Unilever Expands Sustainable Source Policies with New Goals for Paper and Packaging

100% to be from Sustainable Sources by 2020, Company Says; Plans for Teas, Palm Oil, and More
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Green Supply Chain News: Pepsico, Waste Management Tackle the Reverse Supply Chain for Disposable Bottles with the Dream Machine

New Technology Supports Green Supply Chain and Social Network Marketing; Strategy to Fend off Deposits on Beverage Containers as Well?
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Green Supply Chain News: With Cap and Trade Comes Fraud and Corruption, Experts Say; the 10 Ways to Game the Carbon Market

US likely Unprepared for Preventing Fraud and Enforcing the Markets, as Europe's Experience Suggests
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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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Will WalMart Green Product Labeling Create New Scarlet Letter?

Consumers will Generally Buy the Cheapest Product, but will Peer Pressure at Check Out Force Green Habits?
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Green Supply Chain Comment: For Wal-Mart, Green Leadership has Multiple Benefits

From Corporate Whipping Boy to White House A List
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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 and
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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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