Sustainability

Many truckers are committed to sustainability, and some have adopted measures that improve the sustainability of their fleets. However, even relative leaders have the opportunity to be more proactive about transitioning to low-carbon fuels in light of the whole range of lifecycle impacts of fuels.

Any treatment of fuel and sustainability requires consideration of climate change and the dangers it poses to global well-being. Because of these concerns, we have seen an increase in demands for substantial shifts in policy, business practices, and consumer behavior to change our energy mix.

The report “Transitioning to Low-Carbon Fuel: A Business Guide for Sustainable Trucking in North America” is designed to help fleet operators and their value chain partners comply with new and future regulations.

The Road to 2020: Corporate Progress on The Ceres Roadmap for Sustainability assesses how U.S. businesses are progressing on sustainability - it's time to reset business strategies for the 21st century with sustainability at the center.

It is clear that we have the power and the ability to make supply chains safer and more sustainable. Waiting for another disaster in Bangladesh or anywhere else in the world is inexcusable.

Our findings indicate that creating a win-win of raising productivity and competitiveness, as well as social and environmental performance is possible. But an ambitious, systemic approach is needed to achieve industry transformation.

Apple is striving to reduce their impact on climate change, find ways to use greener materials and conserve resources for future generations.

How efficient lift trucks help distribution centers conserve energy and foster environmental responsibility.

Initial fueling infrastructure built at 50 locations in collaboration with Propane Education & Research Council.

Building more than a gigawatt of new wind power in Iowa is the development of a logistics center in the heart of wind country, West Texas, by BNSF Logistics, a subsidiary of Berkshire’s Burlington Northern Santa Fe Railway Company.

As leading companies continue to refine their environmental practices to drive sustainability, they scrutinize every point in their supply chain, including the packaging used to move, handle or store their product, for opportunities to make positive environmental impacts.

Reducing Inefficiencies, Costs and Community Impact by Streamlining the Supply Chain.

The Wall Street Journal - MarketWatch.com highlights BNSFL/Tri Global Energy Joint Marketing Agreement: West Texas wind energy epicenter brings together two major players.

Climate Earth, Four Twenty Seven, and Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index join forces to provide innovative supply chain climate risk management application.

The 2014 World Economic Forum called climate change an “economically disruptive force,” and climate-related risks have risen on the agenda of global corporations in the past years.

The challenge for sustainable business is to identify growth models that result in reduced environmental impact.

Apple’s Suppliers Responsibility Report, released last week, is another big step away from its previous secrecy regarding its environmental performance, and another sign that Apple recognises that its tremendous profits are directly tied to protecting human rights and a healthy planet.

In this Report, we showcase our achievements and challenges and provide detailed data and context about our actions. We also share information about how we work with others to address sustainability issues around the world.

The trend of developing green supply and demand chains is now gaining wide popularity. However, most companies are still figuring out as to how they can achieve this and where do they start.

I’ve thought long and hard about what to say this year because of all the media buzz around shale oil and natural gas fracking as energy saviors, maybe bringing back cheap energy and rendering the big user oil countries less dependent on oil, and less dependent on OPEC and other oil producing countries. My view has not been altered by the recent news around fracking.