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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Cooking with the Sun

Africa is a large and geographically varied continent. When most people think about poverty there, however, they picture people living in a hardscrabble and unforgiving desert environment trying to eke out an

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The Growing Carbon Market

Environmental issues are increasingly taking center stage in a number of fora — from Al Gore’s appearance at the Oscars to discussions among leaders of the world’s wealthiest nations at the recent

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Latest Solar Power Developments

Global warming and development are inextricably tied together. The Bush administration rejected the Kyoto Accord because it thought it would hurt the U.S. economy. Although the administration is looking more favorably on

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Nuclear Power and Energy Resilience

My trip to Kurdistan reminded me how critical a reliable source of electricity is for ensuring peace and prosperity. The rich, as one reader pointed out, can afford to run personal generators,

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Climate Terror

Canadian iconoclast, futurist, and conflict expert Thomas Homer-Dixon has turned his attention to climate change and its potential for tearing societies apart [“Terror in the Weather Forecast,” New York Times, 24 April

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Far-out Ideas for Saving the World

March madness generally applies to the NCAA basketball tournament, but last week Associated Press writer Seth Borenstein made me wonder if the madness isn’t spreading. Borenstein wrote an article, picked up by

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The Watt-com Era

I recently posted a blog about the surge of coal-fired power plants being constructed in the U.S. (Coal Rush in U.S. as Europe Gets Greener). In that post I wrote: “Many pundits

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Wen Jiabao Weighs In

China’s Premier to the National People’s Congress, Wen Jiabao, recently delivered the equivalent of a state-of-the-union address. With China consuming so much of the world’s resources as it continues to develop, the

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Global Warming and Resilience

As most people are aware, an international group of climate scientists released a report last month that (for most people) settled the issue of whether global warming is real. It is. The

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