Sustainability News
Transitioning to Low-Carbon Fuel: A Business Guide for Sustainable Trucking in North America
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.
The Sustainability Impacts of Fuel: A Paper from the Future of Fuels Working Group
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.
Sustainable Trucking Guide for Supply Chain Managers & Fleet Operators
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
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.
Have Supply Chains Changed Since Rana Plaza?
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.
Creating Sustainable Apparel Value Chains - A Primer on Industry Transformation
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.
Earth Day: Apple and the Environment
Apple is striving to reduce their impact on climate change, find ways to use greener materials and conserve resources for future generations.
Elevating Green, Lowering Costs
How efficient lift trucks help distribution centers conserve energy and foster environmental responsibility.
UPS Invests in Propane for U.S. Delivery Fleet
Initial fueling infrastructure built at 50 locations in collaboration with Propane Education & Research Council.
Warren Buffett’s Wind Power Extends To Logistics
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.
Using Plastic Reusable Packaging To Go Green
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.
The Logistics of Transporting Wind Turbines
Reducing Inefficiencies, Costs and Community Impact by Streamlining the Supply Chain.
BNSF Logistics & Tri Global Energy Joint Marketing Agreement
The Wall Street Journal - MarketWatch.com highlights BNSFL/Tri Global Energy Joint Marketing Agreement: West Texas wind energy epicenter brings together two major players.
New Partnership Addresses Climate Risk in The Supply Chain
Climate Earth, Four Twenty Seven, and Notre Dame Global Adaptation Index join forces to provide innovative supply chain climate risk management application.
New ND-GAIN Partnership Addresses Climate Risk in Supply Chains
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.
State of Green Business Report 2014
The challenge for sustainable business is to identify growth models that result in reduced environmental impact.
Why Apple is Greenpeace’s Newest Supply Chain Hero
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.
UPS Corporate Sustainability Report 2012
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.
Greening the Supply Chain
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.
Fracking: A Supply Chain Logistics Game Changer?
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.
Featured Companies
GEP delivers transformative supply chain solutions that help global enterprises become more agile and resilient, operate more efficiently and effectively, gain competitive advantage, boost profitability, and increase shareholder value.
UrbanVolt is helping the world’s largest energy users to rapidly reduce their carbon footprint. We work with large companies as a full solution sustainability partner, enabling them to use their scale to rapidly impact climate change. Our first step…
Ceres is a non-profit organization advocating for sustainability leadership. We mobilize a powerful network of investors, companies and public interest groups to accelerate and expand the adoption of sustainable business practices and solutions to build a healthy global economy.
Brown Integrated Logistics
Brown Integrated Logistics provides world-class services and solutions including third-party logistics, brokerage, warehousing, fleet maintenance, and dedicated trucking.
CDP is an international, not-for-profit organization providing the only global system for companies and cities to measure, disclose, manage and share vital environmental information. We work with market forces to motivate companies to disclose their impacts on the environment and…
Tesla Motors was founded in 2003 by a group of engineers in Silicon Valley who wanted to prove that electric cars could be better than gasoline-powered cars. With instant torque, incredible power, and zero emissions, Tesla’s products would be cars…
Renewable Energy Group, Inc. is leading the energy and transportation industries’ transition to sustainability by converting renewable resources into high-quality, sustainable fuels. Renewable Energy Group is an international producer of sustainable fuels that significantly lower greenhouse gas emissions to immediately…
Human Rights Watch is a nonprofit, nongovernmental human rights organization made up of roughly 400 staff members around the globe. Its staff consists of human rights professionals including country experts, lawyers, journalists, and academics of diverse backgrounds and nationalities. Established in 1978,…
Founded in 2000, China Labor Watch (CLW) is an independent not-for-profit 501(c)(3) organization. Over the past 14 years, CLW has collaborated with unions, labor organizations, and the media to conduct in-depth assessments of factories in China that produce toys, bikes, shoes, furniture,…
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