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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Turning Trash into Treasure

If there is one thing that humankind has mastered, it’s the seemingly unlimited ability to create waste. Even in places that would seem remote from human touch, you can find mankind’s rubbish

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Portable Power

In yesterday’s post entitled Better Batteries or No Batteries at All, I discussed some of the research being conducted and products being manufactured that generate power in new ways. In that post,

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Food and Fumes

In a recent post entitled Sewage and Cleantech, I indicated that I would be writing about the challenges of dealing with animal waste in a future post. This is that post. Voltaire

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Learning from Nature II

I first discussed how designers are drawing from the world around them for inspiration in a 2007 post entitled Turning to Nature to Save Energy. In January 2009, I wrote another post

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The Forests and the Trees

The seemingly endless debates about global warming normally focus on how human activity releases harmful greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. The activities that most people think about include the gases emitted by:

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Eating and the Environment

I thought that a good way to end the current series of posts about food security was to provide readers with some information about how their own eating habits could help in

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Agriculture Production and Prices

This is the third post in a series dealing with agriculture and food security. In the first and second posts of the series, entitled Agriculture Old and New and Agriculture: The Bumpy

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Agriculture: The Bumpy Road Ahead

This is the second in a series of posts about agriculture and food security. In posts written earlier this month about East Africa, I discussed the devastating drought and resulting famine that

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