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CDP and Supply Chain Carbon Reporting

Around this time of the year, many companies are looking for the by now famous CDP (Carbon Disclosure Project) report. And the 2009 report is on-line. But that's not the only information available. For the first time CDP has also issued their first...

Published 10-20-2009 9:09 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Carbon Footprint, Sustainability, BOM, BOP, BOC, SCOR, Environment, Cloud, Carbon neutral, Manufacturing, Community

It all starts with Design for the Environment

Building greener products requires putting the environment right in the middle of the product design process. Indeed, that's where 80+% of the impact of the product on the environment are defined. Many companies seem to forget this. Design for the...

Published 10-05-2009 9:26 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Carbon, Carbon Footprint, Environment, Cost Reduction, Design

How did HP become a "Green" Company?

On Monday, Newsweek released their inaugural Green Rankings , and interestingly, HP finished at the top. In an article, titled " The Greenest Big Companies in America " they explain they decided to publicize this list to recognize the efforts...

Published 09-25-2009 7:37 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Experience, Green, Carbon, Carbon Footprint, Sustainability, CO2, DFE, Environment, Innovation, Carbon offsets, Award

Green for Dummies ... a couple thoughts

There is a lot of discussion about Green IT, and there is a reason for it. According to the " Smart 2020: Enabling the low carbon economy in the information age " report from GSI and The Climate Group, "In 2007, the total footprint of the...

Published 03-31-2009 8:09 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Green, Carbon Footprint, Environment, ICT

Sustainability, don't demotivate us

In an earlier blog, I mentioned that I was going to present at the European Conference of the Supply Chain Council, which I did by now. The presentation preceding mine was on sustainability and I really looked forward to it as I was looking for understanding...

Published 10-17-2008 3:23 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Carbon Footprint, Sustainability, Supply Chain Council

When carbon initiates the debate ....

About two months ago, I wrote an entry for this blog, labeled " BOS and BOC, two new acronyms to get used to ". I was actually far from imagining this was going to be the entry that received most feedback, both through the blog, but also through...

Published 10-09-2008 3:02 PM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Carbon Footprint, BOC, BOS

Carbon Footprint, you know yours?

Two weeks ago at the green Supply Chain conference in London, Carbon Footprint was at the center of the discussions. And one of the topics referred to extensively was how to calculate carbon footprint. It’s actually a very good question and numerous efforts...

Published 07-09-2008 3:21 AM by christianverstraete

Filed under: Supply Chain, Green, Carbon, WWF, Carbon Footprint

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