Category: Get Smart – Eco Data

A New Algorithm for Fast Carbon Footprinting

Happy New Year all…I forgot to post this one last Fall…
Pepsi and Columbia University have been working together for a few years to improve the state of the art on product-level carbon footprinting. They’re making great progress…
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Reality is Overrated as a Motivator

Right before the big election last week, I found myself thinking about beliefs and what people are absolutely sure they know, regardless of the facts. Two stories that appeared on the front page of the New York Times on the same day, demonstrated Americans’ remarkable ability to kid ourselves. But a program in Kansas is showing how you can get people to tackle climate change even if they don’t believe in it.

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IBM’s Green Supply Chain

While the “greening of the supply chain” has been in the works for decades, the movement has really taken off in 2010. In the last few months, a number of corporate giants have announced new initiatives that pressure suppliers to do much more to measure and manage their environmental impacts. The big guns asking the questions include Pepsi, P&G (more in a future post), and IBM.

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SAP and the Greening of a Service Business

Last week I got an interesting view on how enterprise software giant SAP is pursuing a green agenda. Sustainability was a core theme at SAP’s annual meeting SAPPHIRE NOW, a large gathering of over 16,000 CIOs and tech professionals.

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