Look for Savi on June 22nd at the AUSA ILW Army Sustainment Symposium & Exposition.  The show starts on Tuesday and wraps up on Thursday.

June 22 – 24, 2010
Greater Richmond Convention Center, Richmond VA
Contact Christine Hopman (703-608-8750) for details

Savi Solutions reduce costs and wasted labor hours in the supply chain by automating processes with AIDC technologies such as RFID, sensors and GPS. AIDC technologies can serve an even higher purpose, though: reducing the negative effects that business operations have on our natural environment.

Savi Technology’s Craig Fitzpatrick (Senior Manager, Logistics Innovation) discussed in a recent interview with the European Supply Chain Institute some steps that Savi and its parent company Lockheed Martin have taken to make their operations more environmentally sustainable. (more…)

It sure seems like a lot of the green rhetoric we hear these days is barking up the wrong tree. Nobody should be against ways to improve and preserve the environment, but so many of the proposals we hear about are based more on sounds bites than on substance. We don’t know the cost of oil in five years, we don’t know which renewable power generation will emerge, and we surely don’t know if or when man-made carbon emissions are going to make islands start disappearing.
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