Agrofuels Are Potentially Catastrophic For The Environment

Agrofuels Are Potentially Catastrophic For The Environment

June 25, 2013

Public Service Europe claims that industrial agrofuels had once been viewed as a sustainable solution to our energy problems. In reality, industrial agrofuels need one very precious resourse—land. “This battle for land pitches agrofuel corporations and big commodity producers against small-scale farmers, subsistence communities and the environment.” To read more, click HERE.

SCN Summit: State of the Supply Chain 2023

June 6, 2023

Topics revolve around Procurement, Warehouse Automation, Risk Management, Supply Chain Visibility, Achieving a Sustainable Footprint and more.

Supply chain threats come in a number of formats and target various sectors of the supply chains.

Top 5 Supply Chain Threats to Impact Supply Chains in 2023

Even though many of today’s cold food chains continue to face the same disruptions, bottlenecks, challenges and threats they’ve been facing the past 2-3 years, understanding and overcoming such threats will help companies achieve some stability.

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Nominations Close March 31 for 2023 Top 3PL & Cold Storage Providers Award

This award recognizes leading third-party logistics and cold storage providers in the cold food and beverage industry. Submissions close March 31.

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Sustainability Tool Provides Freight Emissions Visibility to Shippers

Redwood Hyperion supports carbon-neutral initiatives by automating detailed load-by-load emissions calculations, facilitating carbon credit purchases toward verified projects and providing shareable progress reporting.

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Understanding the Carbon Footprint of Food Logistics Industry

The food logistics industry is a cause for concern when it comes to the fight against climate change, how can the food logistics industry change their carbon footprint?

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Microsoft Data Manager Breaks Down Data Silos in Agriculture

The company says, what began with Project FarmBeats, an initiative to collect and transform agricultural data, has now evolved into a timely commercial solution for the farming industry.

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Standalone Propane Fueling System for Alternative Vehicles

The new portable dual-purpose standalone fueling systems allow fleets with various alternative fuel vehicles to refuel with propane autogas or recharge with DC Level 3 fast chargers independent of the grid.

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Carbon Heatmap Accelerates Supplier Decarbonization Journey

Carbon Heatmap is ideal for companies who want an intelligent carbon emissions risk mapping tool to quickly and easily identify carbon hotspots across their trading partners.

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Inflation Expected to Drop Latter Half of 2023

Core commodity food prices are rising as much as 43% and energy prices are increasing by over 40%.

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9 Ways Tech will Elevate Food Safety and Quality in 2023

While the food industry has faced significant challenges over the past few years, it appears that things will improve in 2023. Tech will be instrumental in driving positive changes.

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Isuzu Introduces First Electric Truck

Every N-Series EV will be powered by a number of 20-kilowatt-hour, lithium-ion battery packs, and will include a host of safety features.

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Mitigating Cyber Risk through the Food Supply Chain

Any interruption in food production can lead to food safety issues and waste not to mention lost customers and revenues as well as reputational damage to the brand, here are some ways to protect supply chains.

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How Food Manufacturers Can Leverage Connected Supply Chains

Egg-themed memes have taken over the internet, a leading indicator of where food prices are in 2023, supply chain connections can help food manufacturers limit the affects of unpredictable events.

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How to Leverage Discounting and Consumer Strategies to Cut Waste in Food Supply Chain

Supply chains are the backbone of the economy, they’re designed to move goods efficiently. It is necessary to ensure that transportation of food isn't wasteful.

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Cold Chain's Top 4 Drivers for Growth in 2023

Stakeholders throughout the supply chain understand 2023 will not be like any other year, and this is especially true for the cold chain. Here are the top 4 cold chain growth drivers.

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The Top 3 Threats to Fresh Produce Transportation

Whether the recent spike in popularity is due to increasing environmental concerns, personal wellness goals or something else, people are consuming more whole foods in their daily diet than ever.

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CARB-Compliant Trailer Refrigeration Unit

The new X4 7700 trailer refrigeration unit boasts high refrigeration capacities, demonstrated fuel savings of 20-25% and reduced emissions for greater sustainability and regulatory compliance.

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Cumulus, Future of Food Show, Confirms 150 Speakers

The show, which will take place Sept. 11-13 in Las Vegas, will cover topics like sustainable food systems; the rise of automation in agriculture; the challenges facing controlled environments and more.

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How Satellite IoT can Help Agriculture Sector Navigate Extreme Weather Events

Unpredictable and extreme weather is especially harmful to the agriculture sector, given its dependence on the environment and the fact that it primarily operates outdoors. Satellite IoT can help with this issue.

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Survey Finds Industry Leaders Want More Flexibility and Agility

Fleet Advantage revealed the results of its latest industry benchmarking survey where the company received ideas from industry leaders on a range of topics from fuel to the environment.

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Uber Freight, WattEV, CHEP Partner to Deploy First Electric Truck Pilot

This pilot will combine Uber Freight's expansive network of digitally-enabled carriers with WattEV’s innovative electric fleet and charging infrastructure network.

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Warehouse Execution Systems vs. Warehouse Control Systems

Warehouse automation software is used to control, execute and manage the operations of automated warehouses. Control software is focused on controlling the flow of goods through automated warehouses.

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Multi-Shipper Dedicated Fleet Eliminates Empty Miles

The program leverages Leaf Adapt technology to analyze shippers’ data and coordinate multi-shipper moves across the transportation grid.

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Biden-Harris Administration to Create Made-in-America Electric Vehicle Charging Network

These steps will help the United States build a national network of 500,000 EV chargers along U.S. highways.

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Rock Stars of the Supply Chain: Not All Rock Stars are Musicians; Many are Right Here in the Cold Chain

This year's winners lead from within, integrating themselves into the day-to-day tasks of their employees to fully understand the opportunities, pitfalls and options for improvement.

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Electrification is Coming for Mid-Size Fleets

With the electric medium-duty vehicle market booming and sustainability deadlines looming, companies must keep a pulse on these four key industry trends throughout 2023.

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New Laws All Over the World for EPR Packaging

Andorra, Italy, France, Spain, Greece and the Netherlands are all starting the year off with new EPR packaging laws in 2023.