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Vertical Farming: A Solution to Waste and Inefficiency in the Food Supply Chain?
The global food supply chain is in trouble.
Photo: Bloomberg
The Chip Industry Has a Problem With Its Giant Carbon Footprint
Demand for semiconductors is surging as life becomes increasingly digital, but all that computing power comes at a cost.
An employee displays a 300mm silicon-carbide wafer. Photo: Bloomberg.
C.H. Robinson Launches Solutions to Help Companies Cut Carbon Emissions
C.H. Robinson, a global logistics solutions provider, has launched a series of services in order to aid companies in their sustainability efforts.
Biden Infrastructure Plan Seeks $571 Billion in Transport Funds
President Biden’s proposed infrastructure bill calls for $571 billion in additional transportation spending over current federal levels, and $50 billion to make infrastructure more resilient to climate change.
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Watch: How Can We Eliminate Hiring Bias?
Rhett Lindsey, founder and chief executive officer of Siimee, discusses the roots of hiring bias, and details the change in mindset that companies need to undergo in order to eliminate it.
How Can We Eliminate Hiring Bias?
Four Key Elements of Corporate Sustainability
Corporate sustainability can quickly become a broad and overwhelming topic. To remedy this and help drive results, it’s important to start with a focus on four key areas: greenhouse gas emissions, energy, waste and water.
Podcast | How Can We Achieve ‘Transportation Justice’?
For all the attention that we pay to the movement of goods from origin to destination, do we ever give thought to the communities that lie in their path?
A dockworker monitors a shipping container being loaded onto a freight train. Photo: Bloomberg.
GM and Ford Will Fight Startups in the Commercial Van Market
The cargo van isn’t sexy, but thanks to Amazon and e-commerce, startups and established carmakers are falling over themselves to make these proletarian haulers.
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Podcast | Women in Logistics 2021: A Rail Industry Pioneer
Meet a woman of color who has broken down barriers in the railroad industry — among many other accomplishments.
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Protecting Your Supply Chain From Forced Labor
Businesses and suppliers alike must take preemptive action to rid their supply chains of forced labor, or face irreversible damage to their consumer base.
The Slavery Footprint app, created by Made in a Free World, generates estimates of an individual's reliance on slave labor from data on trafficked humans and labor-abuse rates at manufacturers and suppliers. Photo: Bloomberg.
Alternative Energy Is Key to Accelerating the Vaccine Cold Chain
In order to successfully eradicate the COVID-19 virus and mitigate proliferation of new strains, we need to significantly improve safe storage and distribution of the vaccines so that more people can be inoculated faster.
Vials of the Pfizer-BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine sit in a freezer. Photo: Bloomberg.
Fight Between Commodities Giants and Shippers Leaves Seafarers Stuck
A standoff between commodities giants and shipping companies is prolonging the labor crisis at sea, with an estimated 200,000 seafarers still stuck on their vessels beyond the expiration of their contracts and past the requirements of globally accepted safety standards.
Emissions from a cargo ship at dusk. Photo: Shutterstock.
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