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Even Walmart Wants Its Own Alternative Fuel Hybrid Semi Truck

WAVE Concept Truck: 20 Percent More Aerodynamic and Will Use a "Micro-Turbine Hybrid Powertrain" than Can Run on Many Types of Fuel
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More Companies Face Climate-Related Risks to Supply Chains

How Does Your Company Understand Climate-Related Disruptions?
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UPS Expands Alternative-Fuel Fleet 32% With 1,000 Propane Trucks

The Use of Alternative-Fuel and New Technology Vehicles is Part of the Effort to Reduce Emissions and Dependence on Fossil Fuels
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Green Trucking: Choices for Fleets Yet Abound

Increases in Fleet Options and Biofuel Availability are Contributing to Growth in Sales and Use
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How Europe Could Get 16 Percent Of Its Road Fuel From Garbage By 2030

New Report: Advantages are No Competition with Food Crops or Increase in CO2 Emissions Created By Agriculture and Economic Activities
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Preparing Supply Chains for the Green Future

Understanding Cap and Trade and Carbon Taxes
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Vendor Compliance Is Green

Vendor Compliance Optimization is key to building a truly Green Supply Chain. Learn how.
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Case Study: Combining Transportation Planning with Network Design to Reduce Transportation Costs and CO2

Learn how one manufacturer incorporated carbon emissions into its optimal supply chain network design.
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SCDigest Letter on the Green Supply Chain

e-version of the full 16-page version of the SCDigest Letter on the Green Supply Chain 2009
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White Paper: Benchmarking the Perfect Order

How well are companies in the consumer goods to retail channel doing in terms of perfect order achievement? This study looks at results from shipments from over 4500 suppliers - and the results are surprising.
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Green Supply Chain News: Palm Oil Battles Continue, as Greenpeace Accesses Procter & Gamble Headquarters, Unfurls Protest Banners

Report Says Consumer Products Giant Exaggerating its Palm Oil Progress; Does Greenpeace Know More about Company Supply Chain than P&G Does?
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Green Supply Chain News: Apple Releases 2014 Supplier Progress Report

Apple Continues to Set the Gold Standard in Supplier Performance Monitoring on a Range of Sustainability Issues
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Green Supply Chain News: Will Big Spike in US Natural Gas Prices Impact Move to Nat Gas Trucks?

Though Prices are Up More than 30% in Recent Weeks, Fundamental Economics Remain Largely Unchanged
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Green Supply Chain News: Environmentalists Worry Europe is Going Wobbly on Carbon Emissions, Renewables

EU also Likely to Let Fracking Move Forward, Reports says, as Economic Weakness Weighs on Adoption of Tougher Rules
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The Top Green Supply Chain Stories of 2013

Rail Carriers Piloting Natural Gas Locomotives, Controversy over IPCC Report, Lowes and UPS Go Nat Gas, More
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Green Supply Chain Comment: Massachusetts Town Tilting at Its Two Windmills

Residents Says Just Two Turbines Making them Sick, Creating Huge Noise, and Want them Gone; An Industrial Machine is an Industrial Machine
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Green Supply Chain Comment: PepsiCo Struggles Might Give Pause to Aggressive Healthy Food Strategies as Part of Sustainability Programs

CEO on Hot Seat as Healthy Food Strategies Lead to Losing Share in Core Soda Business
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Green Supply Chain Comment: Could Walmart's Green Supply Chain Push Lead to Different SKU Bases?

New Walmart Program Can be seen as Successor to Top-Down Cost Reduction of GM's Lopez 20 Years Ago; What Happens when GHG Emissions Reduction and Supply Chain Cost Decreases Diverge?
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It's not an impossibility, but it's certainly not a slam-dunk and never has been. The healthcare debate has basically sucked all the oxygen out of the room.

Frank O'Donnell, president of the activist group Clean Air Watch, on prospects for the US Senate passing Cap and Trade legislation any time soon.

 
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Supply chain visibility - Anticipation and rapid notification of problems - Collaboration via accurate and complete supply chain performance history - and now, Green Supplier Scorecarding

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