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When cheap is not so cheap
The Economist attempts to rethink “low-cost” and “high-cost” manufacturing locations with the publication of this article. In terms of manufacturing and when managers are choosing where to locate a new factory, their decision depends on many things – with cost being one important factor. And with currencies constantly moving too, yesterday’s low-cost location may turn…
Solar Power: Building a Better Suntrap
Researchers are on a mission to improve the efficiency of solar power. To transform sunlight into electricity, sunlight can be converted directly using a photovoltaic cell. Another way to achieve this is to use the heat from sunlight to boil water, and then drive a turbine with the steam created. In theory, a third way…
Eurologistics Magazine: Amazon.com – Change agent of retail and logistics
“AMAZON.COM: Rewolucyjny model sprzedaży i logistyki”, published in the July 2011 issue of Eurologistics Magazine – in Polish. Download PDF
Jason Fried: Why Work Doesn’t Happen at Work
Software entrepreneur Jason Fried is the co-founder of 37signals and co-author of “Rework.” His passions include collaboration, productivity and the nature of work, all of which become intriguingly apparent in this thought-provoking TED-Talk. In his presentation, Fried proposes a somewhat unnerving suggestion: that perhaps the office isn’t the best place to be productive. Fried goes…
Strings of the Universe… How are You Connected?
A few years ago, a good friend of mine loaned me a book entitled “The Elegant Universe,” by Brian Greene. He warned me that there were a lot of physics in it, and that it pertained to the essence of the universe, but that I might be interested in reading it. When I inquired as…
A Primer on the Global Carbon Markets
In December 1997, members of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) negotiated the Kyoto Protocol that established emissions reductions for the developed and developing nations that ratified the Protocol. The Protocol went into force in February 2005 after Russia ratified it in November 2004. The U.S. did not ratify the Protocol because it set no emission limits for China or India. The Kyoto Protocol…