Posts Tagged ‘logistics’

Energy independence: a role for local authorities?

Friday, October 29th, 2010

In between the “awareness” activities on energy security and development sustainability, there are also real research and development activities going on, ranging from new products/services, to the redesign of supply chains, production processes, and, of course, products.

Everybody read about biofuels in the US and their effect on the agricultural business- but few instead consider the example of Brazil, aiming to achieve complete energy independence with a blend of technologies.

Drawing maps

Monday, February 8th, 2010

If you weren’t outside this planet over the last few weeks, you heard some sabre rattling.

Following the guidelines that I described in the previous article (see “Maximizing costs, minimizing ROI“), this article was inspired by simply connecting strings of unrelated but mutually influencing news items.