Posts Tagged ‘economies of scale’
National Algae Association – Call for Presentations
Home of the Algaepreneur "CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS" Algae Growing, Harvesting and Extraction Technologies and Networking Workshop January 30, 2012 Los Angeles, California When American algae producers, harvesting, extraction technologies, researchers, equipment,and engineering companies who agree that algae is one [...]
The Second Economy
By W. Brian Arthur In 1850, a decade before the Civil War, the United States’ economy was small—it wasn’t much bigger than Italy’s. Forty years later, it was the largest economy in the world. What happened in between was the railroads. They linked the east of the country to the west, and the interior to both. They gave access to the [...]
The End of Globalization
For decades the world economy has been on a path towards globalization. The drive to achieve ever larger economies of scale, at ever lower marginal costs pushed manufacturing to standardize, slashing expenses through outsourcing and supply chain management, limiting the number of suppliers to a few master providers eliminating all unnecessary [...]
Cloud Computing and Sustainability
Are there environmental benefits of moving to the cloud? The cloud’s unprecedented economies of scale reduce overall cost and increase efficiencies, especially when replacing an organization’s locally operated on-premise servers. This report from Accenture and WSP examines whether the advantage also translates to environmental [...]
We are Proud to Recommend The Blue Economy by Dr. Gunter Pauli, a member of Ethical Markets distinguished Advisory Board. – Hazel Henderson, Ed.
THE BLUE ECONOMY By Gunter Pauli (*) TOKYO, Jun (IPS) The world is in need of a new economic model. Who doubts this while the debate on climate change decelerates and the temperature of the earth rises, along with unemployment and poverty levels. We have to search for solutions beyond the obvious and make quantum leaps. (more...)
A Smart Investment in SMEs
Insights from Ethical Markets Correspondent, Tim Nash at the G-20 - Ed. The big debate at the G20 so far seems to be a conflict of opinion about fiscal policy. On the one hand, you have countries who are worried that government deficits are creating debt overloads that are swarming budgets with interest payments. On the other hand, you [...]
