Archives for September 2010

What has seven-eleven done in its choice of facility location, inventory management, transportation?

Question by Khayla: What has seven-eleven done in its choice of facility location, inventory management, transportation?

Answer:

Answer by Mr. X
It has organized local grocery stores into a franchise.

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Harvest Power Superheroes program and resource library

Harvest Power, a developer of renewable energy and compost facilities for next-generation organics recycling, today introduced the Harvest Power Superheroes program and resource library, a knowledge-sharing initiative to encourage source separated organics (SSO) programs in communities throughout North America. The Harvest program both recognizes …
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Baldwin City, Eudora to share energy manager

Three Douglas County public entities hope to receive conservation tips on everything from light bulbs to school buses after they hire an energy manager. The cities of Baldwin City and Eudora, as well
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Teryn Norris: The Rise of China’s Green Mercantilism

China is rising to dominate the clean energy industry primarily due to direct government subsidies, according to a new investigative report by the New York…
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Iran leads nuclear drive in the Middle East

Egypt’s plan to build four nuclear powerplants by 2025 underscores the emerging interest in atomic energy across the Middle East, where even oil-rich nations such as Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates are eyeing fossil fuel alternatives to satisfy growing demand.
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UK firm lands $500m biofuel contract

TMO Renewables wins contract with US firm Fiberight using its ‘turbo-charged’ GM bacteria that convert rubbish into biofuels A British company that uses a genetically modified compost-heap bug to produce biofuel from rubbish has signed a 0m (£319m) contract with a US firm. TMO …
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Clean Energy Trust Receives $1.05 Million U.S. Department of Energy Grant; Organization Looks to Create Clean Energy …

CHICAGO–(BUSINESS WIRE)–The Clean Energy Trust has received a .05 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help transfer research from Illinois’ world-class universities and science labs into clean energy
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India’s largest tier IV datacenter in Mumbai

CtrlS is setting up India’s largest tier IV class datacenter spread over 2,10,000 sq ft area with a capacity of 7000 server racks in Mumbai. Services from this data center will be available from January 2011
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Green Duluth Energy Canvass Begins

Members of Duluth organizations and the community joined Senator Yvonne Prettner Solon Friday to kick off the Green Duluth Energy Canvass, with a bit of help from the Duluth Energy Efficiency Program, or D.E.E.P.
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