Using Green Materials and Supply Chains to Make Sustainable Products

Friday, May 30th, 2008

“One of the hurdles to making sustainable products is figuring out what the term sustainability means for different materials and ingredients.
Jason Pearson, president and CEO of GreenBlue, a research and design institute, spoke with GreenBiz Radio about how companies are using metrics such as recyclability and renewable energy when determining the quality of products, and what efforts are underway to make cleaner supply chains.”

Again we provide you an insight into how industry treats and thinks about sustainability.

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via: ClimateBiz

Update: Take a look at the Future Supply Chain Study as well, which [...] “presents a new integrated supply chain model that takes into account sustainability parameters such as CO2 emissions reduction, reduced energy consumption, better traceability and reduced traffic congestion, as well as traditional measures like on-shelf availability, cost reduction and financial performance.”


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This entry is part 2 of 4 in the series Customer Insight

Step behind the scenes and see how industry deals with sustainability, responsibility and other green or social topics!

Sunday Links

Sunday, May 25th, 2008

Some miscellaneous articles coughed up by my rss reader today:

Finally, Walt Handelsman sums it up:

Walt Handelsman - Summer Blues

Picture by newsday.com / Walt Handelsman


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