John Wilkerson, Sustainability Author Weights in on Green Supply Chain Implementation Challenges during Social Media Interview

Green Awareness, Standards, Communications and other Sustainability Program Challenges shared during Supply Chain, Social Media Interview.

John Wilkerson, CPSM, SSMBB, Vice President, Supply Chain and Sustainability Practice Leader at Bellwether Services a strategic management consulting firm advising global clients on complex issues of strategy, operations, technology, and sustainability. He recently shared Green Supply Chain Implementation insight during Supply Chain Community Social Media interview.

Wilkerson discussed important themes such as; Green Standards, Green Awareness, Supply Chain Business Case Development, Sustainability Program Implementation and Program Communications Planning. The Interview concludes with seven (7) recommendations. Sample recommendations range from defining program deployment planning, sustainability integration strategy and green supply chain scorecards.

The Logistics & Supply Chain social media interview is located on online at several websites:

Vimeo.com VImeo.com http://vimeo.com/13887169
The Examiner http://www.examiner.com/x-27888-Supply-Chain-Examiner~y2010m8d10-5-Major-Challenges-to-Green-Supply-Chain-Management

About the Speaker
John Wilkerson is Vice President, Global Supply Chain and Sustainability Practice Leader for Bellwether Services, a strategic management consulting firm advising global clients on complex issues of strategy, operations, technology, and sustainability. He specializes in Global Supply Chain Planning, Retail Business Intelligence, Strategic Sourcing, Spend Management, Lean Six Sigma, Sustainability, and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Wilkerson also supports the markets as a buy side, sell side and M & A advisor with expertise in numerous sectors including; CPG, Food, Pharmaceutical, Beverage, Logistics, Chemical, Automotive, Defense, Homeland Security and Computer Electronics.

Wilkerson is author of numerous Supply Chain, Procurement, CSR and Sustainability including the Green Supply Chain Management Book Series, Reality of Green Series, Game Changing Moment for the CPO, Greening the Supply Base in Four (4) Simple Steps, It Takes Strategic Vision to Secure the CFO's Attention and many more.

Contact us:
Bellwether Services
John Wilkerson, 404-386-2437
sales (at) bellwether-services.com
http://www.bellwether-services.com/publications.html
http://professional-services.greenbiz.com/listing/bellwether-services-95d779c51a/?source=all_listings

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Climate Change Thought Leader shares vision in new Kyoto Publication

See brief excerpt from Wilkerson's piece:

As federal-agency Chief Sustainability Officers (CSOs) develop and execute the world's most progressive environmental strategy, the Federal Acquisition Team is doing its part by systematically engaging the federal supply base. Contract Management, the Contracting Officer (CO), Industrial Engineering (IE) and Contract Officer Technical Representative (COTR) are involved in a collaboration on the U.S. Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol, Scope 3 impact on the federal government supply base, and Executive Order (EO) 13514's long-term success. The acquisition team must tackle GHG and operational topics, e.g.,

Contractor business travel emissions Employee commute emission .. http://www.awarenessintoaction.com/article.php?url=executive-order-13514-environmental-game-changer-for-federal-acquisition

See Bellwether Services Green Solutions: http://www.bellwether-services.com/company.html

Cap-and-Trade Exchange Calls It Quits

See background from NYT, Energy Blog:

Cap-and-Trade Exchange Calls It Quits


The only national carbon cap-and-trade exchange in the United States is shutting down because of Congressional inaction on limiting emissions, company officials say.

The Chicago Climate Exchange is a voluntary but legally binding greenhouse gas emissions allowance trading system modeled after a federal cap-and-trade program from the 1980s that successfully curbed emissions tied to acid rain.

Members of the exchange, which include DuPont, Motorola, I.B.M. and other major companies, agreed to binding emissions limits, with those who exceeded their limits required to buy credits from those who emitted less.

Activity on the exchange surged last year as Congressional Democrats crafted and then passed comprehensive cap-and-trade legislation, as the exchange was regarded as well positioned to serve as a central vehicle for the emissions trading envisioned by the law. But when a similar bill failed to gain traction in the Senate and was abandoned this year, interest dwindled and the price of its carbon credits crashed.
With climate legislation in the United States dead in the water for the foreseeable future, participants in the exchange have lost interest, said Jeffrey C. Sprecher, chief executive of Intercontinental Exchange, an operator of futures exchanges for agricultural, credit, currency and energy contracts that purchased the Chicago Climate Exchange in July 2010 for $600 million.

Global Food Supply Near Crisis

See NYC Repost:

World ‘Dangerously Close’ to Food Crisis, U.N. Says

Global grain production will tumble by 63 million metric tons this year, or 2 percent over all, mainly because of weather-related calamities like the Russian heat wave and the floods in Pakistan, the United Nations estimates in its most recent report on the world food supply. The United Nations had previously projected that grain yields would grow 1.2 percent this year.

See more: http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/world-dangerously-close-to-food-crisis-u-n-says/