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May 2, 2008 Greener Products, Smarter Supply Chains SLM Home | Sourcing News & Ideas | Connections | Events | About

96% of Global Suppliers See Climate Regs As Potential Risk In an overwhelming majority, suppliers to major corporations including Nestle, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, and Unilever say looming regulations on greenhouse gas emissions pose significant risk to their business, according to initial findings from a new global survey. Read more... Also This Week... American Apparel Sources Cleaner Cotton American Apparel has placed an order for 30,000 pounds of organically farmed, less-polluting cotton from California. Read more... HP Greens Air Freight from China, Earns Smartway Logo Hewlett-Packard is piloting the use of lightweight, recyclable-plastic pallets to ship its notebook PCs from suppliers in China. In related news, the computer giant has become the first company to earn the right to display U.S. EPA's SmartWay cleaner-transport logo on some of its products. Read more... Guitar Center Cuts Truck Shipments by 50% Guitar Center cut the number of truck shipments from its distribution center in half last year thanks to efficiencies in product packaging and transport. The retailer of musical instruments and audio equipment banned the use of wooden pallets in 2006, optimizing space in trucks and saving 8,000,000 pounds of lumber and 70 million square feet of shrinkwrap annually. Read more... More Sustainable Sourcing News & Tools... We want to hear from you! Post your comments or questions below any SLM news story and we'll feature the best of them here. (Note: You must be a registered SLM user to post. Not yet signed up? Click here!) Forward to a Friend! Time Is Running Out! Sustainable Brands '08 is about meeting people, digging in to just-out-of-the-field market research, and hearing about product product design and brand communication strategies that are already resulting in revenue growth and brand value at leading companies big and small. Have you reserved your seat yet? Download the conference agenda here (PDF), and register today! Judah Schiller on Sustainability: Make It Personal Employees are your greatest asset for sustainable innovation, says Judah Schiller of green-marketing firm Saatchi & Saatchi S. Here’s how he corralled 1.3 million Wal-Mart associates into finding new ways for the retail giant to go green – and how you can engage and inspire your own workforce to do the same. Read more... Solution Providers

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