Wind Power's Benefits

(4/4/2014) What are the benefits of wind power? According to American Wind Energy Association, "wind power has cut U.S. carbon dioxide emissions by 4.4 percent."

"There are now 61,000 megawatts of wind power installed in the U.S., with turbines in 39 states. Another 12,000 megawatts of wind power are currently under construction, and power projects for which contracts are signed but construction has yet to start are expected to produce another 5,200 megawatts. AWEA says those additional projects should cut another 1 percent of power sector emissions, putting the country closer to the Obama administration's goal of cutting total U.S. emissions 17 percent by 2020."

Coors Going Green

(6/28/2013) Doing green business is not that difficulty. Coors Brewery now can totally recycle the materials of their beer brewery and go landfill free! It says achieving land-fill free is "remarkably low-tech." I visited this brewery in a CSCMP conference tour to this Coors' brewery, it was amazing. Congratulations!

Where Do They (The Products You Buy) Come From?

(8/23/2012) In a lengthy global supply chain, consumers rarely pay much attention to where do the product they buy come from? How are they made? The working conditions of factory labor in Apple's suppliers (like Foxconn) in China has sparked many media reports on their poor environments. However, it is because it's from Apple (the popular iPhone & iPad maker). The working conditions for Samsung Galaxy III or Google Nexus 7 tablet are not much better than Foxconn (if those products are not made by Foxconn). There is another sad story about the tin-mining pit on Bangka Island in Indonesia.

From the flat-screen tvs we watch, the cars we drive and the smartphones we use, tin is inside. So we are all part of their poor working conditions. The following figure show the raw material supply chain before the tin reaches Foxconn.