Category: Environment

In this blog, we discuss cognitive computing and other technologies with a focus on supply chain management and innovation. Other topics of discussion include digital enterprise transformation, marketing, the Internet of Things, and smart cities. Our goal is to advance the public discussion about how cognitive computing and other advanced technologies affect the world in which we live.

Bradd C. Hayes is the active editor of this blog.

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Creating a Sustainable Future

Nearly two decades ago, MIT professor Peter Senge wrote a best-selling business book that introduced the notion of “learning organizations.” [The Fifth Discipline, New York: Doubleday, 1990]. “As he describes it, a

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Coal, Cash, and Climate Change

In numerous posts, I’ve written about the search for cleaner sources of electrical power including efforts to make coal burn cleaner [see my post The Search for Clean Coal]. In that post,

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Feeding the Dragon

In my post China’s Hunger for Raw Materials, I noted that China is scouring the globe securing access to natural resources. Long gone are the days of the infamous “Cultural Revolution” when

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The Race for a 100 mpg Car

Last month I wrote a post about Google teaming with the X Prize Foundation to sponsor a contest to send robots to the moon [Reaching for the Moon]. The X Prize Foundation,

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Green Development

There has been an empirical argument around for years that developing countries are little concerned with the environment until they reach a certain level of per capita GDP (somewhere, as I recall,

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The Search for Clean Coal

Coal is still the fuel of choice to generate electrical power for many nations; including some of its greatest polluters like the U.S., China and India. One of the reasons is that

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Dealing with Bio-Diesel Waste

Waste byproducts are a challenge for any industry. When waste in one industry can be used as a base resource in another industry, the problem shrinks and profits improve. It also increases

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