Archive for 'Personal Observations' Category
Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How much at what cost?
25 April 2008If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed. Thanks for visiting!Reducing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions: How much at what cost? is a report put together by the consulting firm McKinsey & Co. (from December 2007) that takes up this issue. The full report can be accessed here. The central […]
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Warming up to Sustainability
1 March 2008After a month of being deluged at work, I could do with a bit of warming - Will this Winter ever pass? I could do with a little bit of Global Warming right now. I’d settle for Local Warming too. Ahhhh Spring - How sweet thy sound? The title of this post is a little […]
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Sustainability - Solutions in search of problems
29 January 2008In the last post of this series - A brief background on Sustainability Issues, I tried to outline the various streams of thought flowing about the issue of Sustainability, specifically through the notion of Sustainable Development . I also touched upon a few metrics/indices surrounding sustainable development and linked to a number of reports from […]
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A brief background on Sustainability issues
9 January 2008I think that it is a necessary first step to outline the scope of what Sustainability entails. Before I begin this first rough cut exploration, let me reiterate the context of this post i.e. the first blog carnival of 2008 hosted at Sourcing Innovation by Michael Lamoureux. To that end, I reiterate my solicitation from […]
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Wishing you all a Happy New Year
1 January 2008I want to wish all of you a Happy New Year ahead - challenging and fun filled days ahead. I am sure that there are surprising things in store, "Aha" as well as "Ahem" moments - I hope we persevere through them and come out on top. Lastly, I hope we get to share them […]
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The Sustainability Blog Carnival - Invitation
28 December 2007As the new year approaches, Michael Lamoureux of Sourcing Innovation has put forth invitations for 2008’s first blog carnival - Sustainability. He writes in his invitation:
Ask any executive for their top three concerns, and I’m sure that either Sustainability, Social Corporate Responsibility, Green, Carbon FootPrint, or the Environment is likely to escape their lips. That’s […]
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Do not buy a Dell?
17 December 2007Do not buy a Dell! So says, Ernesto DiGiambattista at his site in an article that he pens. If you remember (or worse - had a Dell battery fire up on you - pun intended), Dell has caught quite a bit of flak in recent years - the golden boy of supply chain management has […]
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