Earlier this week, Google announced plans to get into the alternative energy business. The Web search and advertising giant plans to spend $500 million to buy companies and hire engineers to develop new and more affordable solar, geothermal, wind, and other alternative energy sources.
The “Renewable Energy Cheaper Than Coal” initiative plans to “produce one gigawatt [...]

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Our fearless field reporter, Andrea Soltysiak, is back with more insights from Aberdeen Group’s recent CPO Summit in Boston. This time she recounts the sometimes radical comments from supply management pioneer Roy Anderson on how we must adapt to the changing business landscape.
In a recent presentation at Aberdeen’s CPO Summit, Roy Anderson, vice president of [...]

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We read the warnings of horrific travel during the U.S. Thanksgiving holiday – whether via air or road. In Atlanta alone, airport officials estimated about 1.8 million people would pass through Hartsfield-Jackson during the long holiday weekend, including about 324,000 people on Sunday and 305,000 on Monday of this week. That is about a [...]

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Could your Thanksgiving feast be a bellwether for inflation and possibly (gasp) recession? Some economists think so. And the economic tea leaves seem to support this conclusion.
The American Farm Bureau Federation this week reported that the cost of a traditional Thanksgiving dinner for a family of 10 has jumped nearly 11% this year — a [...]

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So, your CEO has caught the sustainability bug and now you’re personally on the hook to reduce energy consumption, waste, and greenhouse emissions.
You’ve started by implementing some easy eco-fixes with your internal operations, but your factories are still spewing more smoke than a bachelor party at a cigar bar. Retrofitting your old production equipment to [...]

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