With the growing consumer demand for sustainability, manufacturers and designers increasing numbers of factors to consider when creating new products from material sources and processes to packaging and distribution lines. While this is well within the capabilities of companies of any scale, it certainly adds a level of complexity to companies, particularly small businesses with [...]
Filed under: Business, Community, Environment, News on September 10th, 2009 @ 5:22 pm
Tagged with: Business, consumer, global, industry, innovation, local, manufacturers, networks, niche, One Good Chair, process, product, production, scale, success, sustainability
The only major American automaker to escape the government bailout from earlier this year, Ford Motor Company announced today that it will be upping its production numbers through the end of the year. Citing increased dales from the “Cash for Clunkers” rebate program (that was recently extended with an additional $2 billion in government funding), [...]
Filed under: Business, News on August 13th, 2009 @ 4:35 pm
Tagged with: automakers, Business, cash for clunkers, economy, Ford, funding, government, inflation, jobs, markets, production, sustainability, Toyota, vehicle
In January of this year, Tullow Oil, an Anglo-Irish exploration firm, announced it had succeeded in finding new sources of petroleum near Uganda’s Lake Albert region. But even with news of this discovery, in the eyes of many in the industry, Tullow remained a small player in the oil market. But virtually overnight, the company [...]
Filed under: Environment, News on August 10th, 2009 @ 3:40 pm
Tagged with: Africa, energy, energy consumption, flexibility, fossil fuels, global, markets, oil, optimism, petroleum, production, Tullow Oil, Uganda
Traditionally known as an offshore manufacturing center for worldwide brands like Hewlett-Packard, Motorola and Apple, Taiwan has built a reputation for being a high-tech powerhouse for others, and now it might be poised to take that notion a step further. As a business model, the limitations of contract production are numerous – not having the [...]
Filed under: News, Technology on July 30th, 2009 @ 3:25 pm
Tagged with: brands, Business, flexibility, global, high-tech, infrastructure, innovation, innovative, production, profits, start-up, Taiwan
Exxon, one of the world’s leading oil producers, posted a huge loss Thursday, with its revenues dropping to $3.95 billion from $11.68. The main reason for the loss was the worldwide bottoming of oil prices, leading many analysts to read these numbers as another sign of the necessary shift towards sustainable fuels.
Exxon’s chairman and chief [...]
Filed under: Business, News on July 30th, 2009 @ 2:06 pm
Tagged with: costs, economy, Exxon, global, innovative, jobs, NY Times, Oil prices, OPEC, opportunities, production, profits, Rex W. Tillerson, strategies
Japanese car giant Nissan displayed its new system for powering electric vehicles yesterday, a technology that while not revolutionary, certainly provides the market with a much needed upgrade. The company describes the new battery system as a “platform…comprised of a highly rigid body, high-performance motor, compact lithium-ion battery with high power output and energy capacity, [...]
Filed under: Environment, News, Technology on July 28th, 2009 @ 1:40 pm
Tagged with: battery system, electric car, electric vehicle, EV, ion battery, nissan, production, Technology, Tiida
Tyler Cowen gives us a taste of his upcoming book, “Create Your Own Economy,” in a recent piece for Fast Company that touches on some of the fundamental ways our online “economies” are changing our ideas about growth, production and success. As we shift further away from the tangible and actual towards the mental and [...]
Filed under: Business, News, Technology on July 8th, 2009 @ 9:52 am
Tagged with: economy, fundamental, growth, internet, metrics, production, success, Technology, Tyler Cowen
‘Younger than Moses: Idle Worship’ is an art exhibit featuring 22 artists in New York.
As part of the European Project FP7 research called “Integrated System for Transport Infastructures Surveillance and Monitoring by Electromagnetic Sensing,” a team of researchers had been gathered from the countries of Israel, Italy, France, Sweden, Norway, Switzerland and Romania.
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