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A Year After the BP Oil Spill- a Slow Recovery, Continued Risk Management Challenges

A year ago last week, and for months afterward, we were bombarded with horrible images of potentially catastrophic proportions.  The Gulf Coast was under siege from the Deepwater Horizon blowout and resultant spill.  Dead or dying...
Posted April 26, 2011 with 480 views     

Sir Bransons Climate Challenge to Sea Cargo Shippers- Carbon Accounting Successes & New Tools

In prior posts I have discussed the importance of transportation and logistics as critical elements in anchoring a sustainable supply chain (see separate posts here and here).  Last week I discussed the key linkages between supply chain...
Posted December 7, 2010 with 1,316 views     

Seeking Links Between Supply Chain Sustainability, Logistics & the U.N. Climate Conference (COP16)

As the world’s nations converge on Cancun this week for the two week UN Climate Change Conference (COP16) a few statistics are in order to put the supply chain and related logistics industry into perspective.  It’s a pretty sure bet (given...
Posted November 30, 2010 with 1,305 views     

Unilever & New Report: How Voluntary Sustainability Initiatives & Supply Chain Transparency Can Make a World of Difference

Two items caught my eye recently.  One is a new report called the State of Sustainability Initiatives (SSI) Review 2010.  This review was a collaborative effort by the International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD), the...
Posted November 24, 2010 with 1,174 views     

Comparing U.S. and U.K. Government Approaches to Green Procurement & Supply Chain Management- Which is Better?

Two news items caught my eye this week, not only for what they were attempting to achieve but for the (possibly?) vastly different approaches being taken.  Two governments- one the U.S, the other the U.K.  Both governments have been...
Posted November 21, 2010 with 4,342 views     

Collaboration, Transparency, and Metrics Foster Sustainable Change

In an earlier post I mentioned the soon to be availability of “The Portland Bottom Line: Practices for Your Small Business from America’s Hotbed of Sustainability”.   Well, the book has arrived and I am more proud than ever to be a contributor...
Posted November 19, 2010 with 456 views     

2010 Green Supply Chain Awards Recognize Companies for Innovation, Efficiency, Environmental Performance.

Last week, the Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine announced the recipients of its 2010 Green Supply Chain Awards.  These awards recognize companies that are making sustainability a core part of their supply chain strategies. This is...
Posted November 16, 2010 with 1,909 views     

ISO 26000 Social Responsibility Guidance May Offer Supply Chain Opportunities to Small-Mid Sized Manufacturing

Amid the pre- and post-election haze here in the U.S and the taking of the World Series by the San Francisco Giants (first since 1954), comes ISO 26000, Guidance on Social Responsibility. This guidance document from the International...
Posted November 3, 2010 with 1,747 views     

Global Supply Chain Survey: Sustainability Efforts Can Move Balance Sheets from Red to Black (with a Little Green)

The eighth annual “Global Survey of Supply Chain Progress,” was released recently.  The poll was conducted by Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC), Supply Chain Management Review, The Eli Broad Graduate School of Management at Michigan State...
Posted October 27, 2010 with 940 views     

Redwood Forests Provide a Clue to Business Sustainability and a Greener Supply Chain

Thoreau did it.  So did Carter and Brezhnev, and Reagan and Gorbachev too.  They all took a walk in the woods, like I did on a recent weekend…to explore and resolve internal and external issues.  My hike took place in the coastal...
Posted October 26, 2010 with 799 views     

Green Supply Chain Management Requires Less Procrastination & More Innovation, Leading by Example

Admit it- we’ve all done it.  Procrastinated. Waited until the brink of a bad outcome.  Not taken the time to thoughtfully, proactively, pragmatically complete an assignment, implement a new ‘leading edge’ technology or launch a...
Posted October 15, 2010 with 2,766 views     

In Supply Chain Logistics Management, There’s a Reverse Gear–and It’s Green–Part 2

In Part 1 on this series, I presented some definitions of reverse logistics from a traditional versus sustainability focused mindset, and extended product responsibility. Reverse logistics includes processing returned merchandise due to damage,...
Posted October 11, 2010 with 538 views