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Ryder Publishes Corporate Sustainability Report

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

Ryder System, Inc., a leader in transportation and supply chain management solutions, today announced that it has published a Corporate Sustainability Report highlighting Ryder’s progress towards improving the communities and environments where the Company does business. The report profiles Ryder’s efforts to drive business growth in economically viable, environmentally sound, and responsible ways. It is [...]

California Passes Cap & Trade Program: Look for Major Supply Chain Impacts

Tuesday, October 25th, 2011

From California Environmental Protection Agency: “The formal Cap-and-Trade rulemaking began with the release of the Staff Report: Initial Statement of Reasons (ISOR). The ISOR and formal rulemaking materials are available on the cap-and-trade rulemaking web page. The Board Hearing on this item was held on December 16, 2010. At the hearing, the Board approved Resolution [...]

Apple secretive about ‘polluting and poisoning’ supply chain, says report

Saturday, February 5th, 2011

From The Guardian: “Apple is more secretive about its supply chain in China than almost all of its rivals, according to a new report by anti-pollution activists who accuse the company’s products of degrading the environment and poisoning workers. Despite its claim to be a leading promoter of corporate ethics worldwide, the maker of iPads [...]

Industry Analyst Pioneer Adrian Bowles Adds Sustainability Coverage For Constellation Research

Tuesday, January 18th, 2011

Constellation Research Inc, a next generation research analyst and advisory firm helping clients navigate emerging and disruptive technologies, announced today that Adrian Bowles has joined as a Vice-President & Principal Analyst. Bowles will focus on technologies and practices that support sustainable business growth. Adrian brings decades of both practitioner and industry analyst experience. Previously, he [...]

CSR 2010: Emerging Career Choices in Supply Chain and Sustainability

Friday, December 31st, 2010

From Forbes: “As misconceptions of business sustainability being a passing trend quickly fall by the wayside, large organizations, traditionally mistaken as burdened with a primary responsibility as change agents in the water, carbon, environment and climate change solutions are now shifting the burden to include suppliers,” writes Julie Urlaub, sustainability consultant, founder and managing director [...]

Herman E. Daly: A Steady-State Economy

Saturday, October 17th, 2009

From SDC(UK): The Earth as a whole is approximately a steady state. Neither the surface nor the mass of the earth is growing or shrinking; the inflow of radiant energy to the Earth is equal to the outflow; and material imports from space are roughly equal to exports (both negligible). None of this means that [...]

Supply chain brawl leads to 156 dead in Uighur riots

Tuesday, July 7th, 2009

From CSR Asia: “The big story from China is, of course, the at least 156 deaths in Uighur riots in Xinjiang (see Google News items here). Buried in most reports is the fact that this particular outbreak of rioting has its genesis in a clash between dominant Han Chinese and ethnic minority Uighur workers in [...]

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