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Software Calculates Carbon Footprint What-Ifs

ILOG has released a Carbon Footprint extension to its LogicNet Plus XE supply-chain application, InfoWorld reports. The software can map out several scenarios to assess the cost of, for example, adding new distribution facilities in various locations...

Published 03-20-2008 5:51 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Business-to-Business, Hi-Tech, Predictions

Hospitals Cut Waste By Recycling Single-Use Devices

Hospitals are starting to recycle and reuse items that are labeled for single use - scissors, scrubs, even surgical blades. The Wall Street Journal (via Earth First) writes that the idea is to save money and clean up the waste stream. Of course, there...

Published 03-19-2008 7:28 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Major Players, Business-to-Business, Waste, Healthcare, Recycling, Strategy & Leadership

Soaring Diesel Prices Spur Interest In Hybrid Trucks

New EPA standards and $100-a-barrel oil are creating demand for hybrid big rigs, garbage trucks and dump trucks, even with the 35 percent premium over conventional vehicles, Forbes reports. The appeal: hybrid trucks can deliver fuel savings of 5 percent...

Published 03-19-2008 2:40 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Major Players, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Automotive, Fossil Fuels, Manufacturing, Hybrid Technology, Strategy & Leadership

ArcelorMittal Tells EU Court That Emissions Rules Aren’t Fair

Lawyers for steel giant ArcelorMittal have told Europe’s highest court that there’s no justification for EU lawmakers to exclude the aluminum and chemical industries from 2003 legislation that capped CO2 emissions and that the exclusion puts...

Published 03-12-2008 5:41 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Supply Chain, Europe, Feature, Major Players, Climate, Business-to-Business, Industrial Goods, Policy & Law

Con-Way Freight Dials Back Speed To Save Fuel

Less-than-truckload freight transportation company Con-way Freight has turned back the speed governors on its 8,400-tractor fleet in a move to improve fuel conservation and reduce carbon emissions. The company has adjusted the governors on its truck engines...

Published 03-11-2008 3:20 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Emissions, Supply Chain, Feature, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Efficiency, Strategy & Leadership

Nature Provides Recipe For Sustainable Manufacturing

By studying the Earth’s biosphere, managers can learn how to build ecologically friendly products that reduce manufacturing costs, Gregory Unruh writes in the Dallas Morning News. To make recycling easier, manufacturers should think fewer materials...

Published 03-10-2008 4:34 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Waste, Business-to-Consumer, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Recycling, Products & Planning

DuPont Titanium Cuts Energy Use, Saves $100 Million

DuPont Titanium Technologies says it has cut its energy consumption per pound of product by nearly 30 percent - saving more than $100 million in the process as oil prices hover at the $100 per barrel threshold. The business estimates that it has saved...

Published 03-03-2008 2:05 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, Facilities, U.S., Efficiency, Industrial Goods, Strategy & Leadership

UPS, FedEx Find Ways To Save Gas

With record setting gas and diesel prices, fuel-efficient package delivery has taken on an even higher level of importance for UPS, FedEx, and other truck-dependent businesses, AP reports. High-tech solutions, old-fashioned fuel surcharges, equipment...

Published 02-20-2008 12:40 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Feature, Major Players, Business-to-Business, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Business Services, Efficiency, Strategy & Leadership

Demand For Organic Food Grows On Campuses

College students are demanding that schools purchase regional produce, AdAge reports. That’s forced major food-service companies to look for organic alternatives - and allowed regional rivals to enter the $5 billion on-campus-dining market. Eat’n...

Published 02-19-2008 3:05 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Supply Chain, Business-to-Business, Agriculture, Education, Policy & Law

Subaru Among Companies Nearing Zero-Waste

Subaru says that 99.8 percent of the refuse from its Indiana plant - on track to produce 180,000 cars this year - is recycled or reused so it doesn’t go to a landfill, including about five percent that goes to a waste-to-energy plant that burns...

Published 02-19-2008 2:32 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Major Players, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Facilities, Waste, Automotive, Manufacturing, Efficiency, Recycling, Strategy & Leadership

Herman Miller’s Walker On Greening Supply Chains

A business, and the products it sells, can only be environmentally sustainable through a holistic approach to design, raw materials, production methods, packaging, shipping, recycling, and even marketing–across the entire value chainBrian Walker...

Published 02-18-2008 1:39 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Strategy & Leadership

Market Opportunities Are Driving Green Technology

Forty percent of technology executives claim the green movement creates significant market opportunities for their companies, as evidenced by a noticeable increase in customer demand for green products and services, according to Technology Executive Connections...

Published 02-13-2008 6:52 PM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, Marketing, Business Services, Manufacturing, Hi-Tech, New Technology, Strategy & Leadership, Today's Green Trend

Harrah’s Making Environmental Choices

Gwen Migita, director of social responsibility at Harrah’s Entertainment, says that over the past seven years, environmental initiatives have gone from energy management cost cutting measures to an acknowledgment by executives that making green...

Published 02-12-2008 11:49 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Sustainability, Business-to-Business, U.S., Business-to-Consumer, Efficiency, Travel, Recycling, Products & Planning, Retail & Restaurants

IBM, JP Morgan, Motorola, Others Join Supply Chain Carbon Council

The European Supply Chain Institute’s recently formed Supply Chain Carbon Council has unveiled new members including: IBM, KFW Foderbank, JP Morgan, Carbon Disclosure Project, IETA, Green 2020, Promise Project, DNV, SGT, PE International, Orbeo...

Published 02-11-2008 6:41 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Supply Chain, Business-to-Business, Business Services, Strategy & Leadership

EA Logistics Offers ‘Carbon-Neutral Freight’

EA Logistics has launched Delivered GrEAn, a free carbon offset program for corporations that use the company’s freight services. Through the program, EA Logistics computes the emissions for each shipment and offsets them by purchasing credits from...

Published 02-07-2008 11:27 AM by Environmental Leader

Filed under: Transportation, Emissions, Supply Chain, Europe, Business-to-Business, Contracts & Installations, Carbon Offsets/RECs

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