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Options for Low Emission Fuels
Today, approximately 390,000 Americans own Prius. Although hugely successful by means of hybrid technology, it is not clear how much potential there is in the hybrid market. In 2005, Ford had announced that it…
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End of Oil Age
On March 8, 1956 Dr. M. King Hubbert predicted that oil production in the United States' "lower 48" states would crest between 1965 and 1971 and that global production would peak about the year…
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Complexity and Adaptivity in Supply Networks
Today, supply chain management (SCM) involves adapting to changes in a complicated global network of organizations. A typical supply network consists of inter-firm relationships that may connect multiple industries. As a result, supply network…
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The Innovative Carbon Market
Consider this: Every year the average sow and her piglets produce 9.2 tons of carbon-dioxide equivalent through the methane emissions from their effluent. In the past, that has been a problem both for the…
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Supply Chain Issues at Airbus
Louis Gallois, the boss of EADS, the Franco-German aerospace consortium that owns Airbus, reiterated the warning raised by the planemaker’s CEO, Tom Enders. Due to the decline in dollar, the companies is seriously considering…












