A VC in Vacationland
Seeking the next gen supply chain technology breakthroughs
recent posts
- The Role of Generative AI in Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- AI’s Impact on Supply Chain Investment Strategies
- The ‘New Normal’ is now the ‘No Normal’ in Supply Chains
- SRR—Sustainability, Resilience, Risk Management: The Latest Supply Chain Buzzwords & Investment Opportunities
- 3PLs–Investing in the Next Generation of Outsourced Supply Chain Solutions
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Category: Green Logistics
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Image via Wikipedia Did you ever wonder who put the lead in your child's Thomas the Tank Engine? Or the melamine in your pet food? Or the antifreeze in your toothpaste? Sourcemap, an MIT open source project uses wiki-oriented volunteers to seek out the ultimate producers of crummy products and find out where the "stuff…
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Image via Wikipedia Whole Foods announced this week that it would be recycling wine corks via Cork ReHarvest in all its 292 stores in the US, Canada and the United Kingdom. In a previous Blog, I reported that Whole Foods was doing a pilot program with ReCork but that evidently that relationship faltered. Cork ReHarvest…
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Image via Wikipedia I don't know about you, but my supply chain runs through my stomach. Let's not discuss where it goes from there. The revamped Business Week (thanks, Bloomberg, for revitalizing what had become an increasingly useless magazine) featured an interesting article recently on Pepsi hiring a team of scientists to develop a healthier alternative to Doritos.…
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Image via Wikipedia Finally…a real business model for the recycling business. TerraCycle has created a company that can actually provide the correct financial incentives across the waste stream to allow all participants to make money. In a nutshell, Terracycle pays for recyclable materials from companies, charities and schools, turns them into "cool" products and sells them for a…
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Image via CrunchBase I admit it. My family are "abusers" of Amazon's Prime option for shipping. We constantly order one book or CD and have it shipped for two day arrival. No doubt it goes initially by air, is wrapped in a lot of cardboard and plastic, but costs "only" $79 per year for unlimited shipping, or about…
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Warren Buffett has made a huge bet on global economic growth by purchasing the remaining stock he does not own in the Burlington Northern Santa Fe (BNSF) for $26 billion. BNSF, the nation's second-largest railroad, is the biggest hauler of food products for export such as corn, and coal for electricity, making it a key…
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Image by H Robertson Photography via Flickr About a year ago, I posted on the ReCORK/Whole Foods partnership to recycle used corks from wine bottles. Now we know what is going to happen to some of these corks. ReCORK announced on 5 October that they are partnering with SOLE Footwear of Canada to reclaim and…
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Image by Getty Images via Daylife With thanks to VentureBeat for finding them and writing an excellent article on them…. Start up Ecovadis provides companies with a software platform that lets them weigh the environmental and humanitarian impacts of their supply chains — even those that circle the globe. Essentially, it scores suppliers based on…
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Image via CrunchBase Designer clothing and accessories move through some of the most complex and expensive (read: not so green, either) sales and supply chain channels in the world. Made in Asia or other third-world countries, shipped to European, Asian or North American distribution facilities and then sold through in-store or stand-alone boutiques, fashion products…
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Image via Wikipedia Mars goes sweet for ethically sourced cocoa By Jenny Wiggins Financial Times April 8 2009 function floatContent(){var paraNum = "3" paraNum = paraNum – 1;var tb = document.getElementById('floating-con');var nl = document.getElementById('floating-target');if(tb.getElementsByTagName("div").length> 0){if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length>= paraNum){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[paraNum]);}else {if (nl.getElementsByTagName("p").length == 3){nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[2]);}else {nl.insertBefore(tb,nl.getElementsByTagName("p")[0]);}}}} Mars, which owns the Mars, Snickers and M&M candy brands, is to spend…
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