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| A number of vendors have introduced applications that help companies measure their emissions of carbon dioxide, the gas often blamed for global warming. And it’s not just established players like IBM that have jumped into this market; the entrants also include startup ventures formed just for that purpose.Read more at www.dcvelocity.com |
In a recent broadcast of Public Radio International’s The World, Murray Carpenter made a tour of people who were throwing some light on the hidden costs of global consumption. Leonardo Bonanni of MIT has created an online system called Sourcemap that allows users to construct a model of any physical product’s carbon dioxide footprint. The online model (of a shirt, or a dish set, or a pendant) consists of the built-in footprint from any source material and the emissions created to transport that material to the manufacturing site. The process operates fairly intuitively, but it also has some hidden faults and some hidden advantages of its own.Read more at environment.change.org
- SciQuest, Inc., the global on-demand software leader empowering enterprises to realize the potential of strategic procurement, today announced that Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine has recognized the company with a 2009 Green Supply Chain Award. SciQuest received the honor for helping organizations meet their sustainable and green supply chain goals through its eprocurement solutions. Read more at www.prnewswire.com
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If you are thinking about ways to green your supply chain, you’re not alone. A Supply Chain Consortium survey showed that organizations of all sizes are implementing sustainability initiatives throughout the supply chain not only to achieve regulatory compliance, but also to improve brand image and customer satisfaction.
Hewlett-Packard has set a new goal of reducing energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions of all its products to 40 percent below 2005 levels by the end of 2011.
Hewlett-Packard announced the goal while reporting that has reduced its combined energy consumption and associated greenhouse gas emissions to 25 percent based on 2005 levels for 2010.
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