Amazon Plans To Make 50% of Shipments Net Zero Carbon by 2030 (venturebeat.com) 58
Amazon says it hopes to make 50 percent of all shipments to customers with net zero carbon in the next 11 years as part of an initiative it's calling Shipment Zero. From a report: It also announced that it'll share a report detailing its companywide carbon footprint -- along with "related goals and programs" -- later this year, and that it'll continue to use customer feedback to "enable" and "encourage" its supply chain partners to reduce their environmental impact. The initiative builds on the Seattle retailer's ongoing work to minimize its contributions to greenhouse gases, Dave Clark, senior vice president of worldwide operations at Amazon, explained in a blog post.
Amazon currently has over 200 scientists, engineers, and product designers dedicated to "inventing new ways" to "leverage [its] scale" for the "good of customers and the planet," he said, and has engaged in an "extensive" project over the past two years to develop a model that provides internal teams with data to help them identify ways to reduce carbon use.
Amazon currently has over 200 scientists, engineers, and product designers dedicated to "inventing new ways" to "leverage [its] scale" for the "good of customers and the planet," he said, and has engaged in an "extensive" project over the past two years to develop a model that provides internal teams with data to help them identify ways to reduce carbon use.
So where is the reactor going to be? (Score:2)
Or will it be a huge vat of sun-ripening algae for producing biodiesel? Either way, Scary Teeth Woman's home would be a great location.
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Cover the distribution centre in solar panels, and offset some more by adding a surcharge to the delivery that gets invested in carbon reduction tech like trees and capture. There is also the packing material to consider, which has a lifetime carbon footprint.
They may also try some more dubious methods such as claiming that a delivered item resulted in one fewer trip to the shops by their customer, or one fewer delivery to a rival retailer that only uses dirty, dirty diesel.
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Re:Apple will... (Score:5, Interesting)
If Apple is 50% of their customer base, Apple will need to go all the way to their warehouses to pickup the products to meet zero carbon admissions by Amazon.
This of course highlights one the biggest problems of our time, hacking metrics to meet the number, but not solve the problem the number is trying to show.
I have seen across many industries. A department installs their own ticket tracking system, so all tickets that go on the Enterprise tracking system, are quickly closed, and transferred to their own. So the execs see that department keeps their tickets in good timing, while the actual problems in the tickets are not being resolved.
Lowering budget costs, by transferring the cost into an other payment unit. For example laying off employees, and hiring a contractor at twice the amount, because a contractor fee is paid in a different budgeting area, which the company may have extra money.
The problem is too many people just look at the numbers, and do not bother digging past them to see what is causing them.
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Precisely. Clever number-crunchers can shape the numbers to reinforce a wide spectrum of outcomes.
Employee diversity numbers can be made to look a great deal better at tech companies who employ onsite kitchen and janitorial personnel.
Is Amazon well-managed? (Score:2)
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Yes, yes it is. The word "manipulate" has a negative connotation though. I am sure Amazon see this as offering customers additional options. You are looking at that newest iPhone, perhaps you should also see what the newest Samsung has to offer. Being that Amazon offers nearly everything, people go there to shop (and may not buy anything) like those Boomers use to do in these places called Department Stores, or Gen-Xer in a places called Malls. Today Amazon is nearly the monopoly in store front.
While the
Other sloppiness on Amazon web pages (Score:2)
It's okay to recommend other products. Recommendations could be at the bottom of the page.
Why have a lot of blank space under the image? [amazon.com]
Now Amazon web addresses have a lot of coding we are not allowed to understand. An example, this is the working Amazon web page address given above:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0722DMYTN/ref=br_msw_pdt-5/130-5936011-9843524
This is what Amazon wants sent: (For the address ab
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Note, the minimum needed for the catalog address above was https://www.amazon.com/dp/B072... [amazon.com].
It appears you posted your order number in your link. I recognize the 130-XXXXXX-XXXXX format.
What information is Amazon encrypting? (Score:2)
Yes Amazon is VERY well managed (Score:2)
Amazon appears to me to be a poorly-managed company.
Are you being ironic and making a joke or is this a serious (and stupid) question? I can't tell. Amazon sells close to half of all online retail sales in the US. If that is poorly managed then give me some of that. I'm sure it's just an accident that Jeff Bezos is now the richest man on the planet.
Every Amazon web page has the distractions of Amazon trying to sell something else besides the product that interests you.
They have mountains of data that says a lot of their customers buy those other products at or around the same time as the one you are looking at. Why would they not try to sell both items at the same time?
Is trying to manipulate customers good business management?
Have
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Grocery stores, at least in North America, put the milk and bread at the back of the store so that customers have to walk through the store to get to them. Items that you are likely to buy at the drop of a hat are placed near the checkout so you see them while waiting. They move all of products around the store in order to get customers to look around for them causing them to see everything else. Higher margin products are placed at eye level. Companies are even charged for this. Stores even manage the musi
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50% net zero carbon (Score:1)
Obligatory Dilbert (Score:2)
Scott Adams's forecast for $COMPANY_NAME.
https://dilbert.com/strip/2019... [dilbert.com]
https://dilbert.com/strip/2019... [dilbert.com]
https://dilbert.com/strip/2017... [dilbert.com]
Turn exhaust into boxes (Score:2)
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Boxes (Score:2)
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It's the tape that messes that up. There are green recycle-friendly label alternatives, which if purchased in bulk by a very large corporation, would be just as cheap as the non-recyclable labels they currently use, but that would involve someone at Amazon understanding economic supply constraints.
I for one welcome our green Amazonians (Score:2)
If you combine solar, wind, and a third source like batteries or hydroelectricity, it's very easy to achieve 99 percent green power.
The major problem is the envelopes they use now jam up the recycling machines, due to using plastics.
Will that include firewood deliveries? (Score:2)
Not this again (Score:2)
Because... (Score:2)
Already on the road... (Score:2)
Given the frequency their delivery contractors fail to perform the core of their job function correctly, i.e. actually deliver the package to the correct address undamaged and on time, they hardly qualify as carbon based life-forms.
Bravo for getting a head start on carbon reductions, Amazon!