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Renewable carbon resources is a misnomer the earth s carbon is in a perpetual state of flux. Carbon is not consumed such that it is no longer available in any form. Reversible and irreversible chemical reactions occur in such a manner that the carbon cycle makes all forms of carbon, including fossil resources, renewable. It is simply a matter of time that makes one carbon from more renewable than another. If it is presumed that replacement does in fact occur, natural processes eventually will replenish depleted petroleum or natural gas deposits in several million years. Eixed carbon-containing materials that renew themselves often enough to make them continuously available in large quantities are needed to maintain and supplement energy suppHes biomass is a principal source of such carbon. 

Timber can be viewed as a classic renewable material. Trees absorb carbon dioxide and utilize water and sunlight to produce a material that can be used in construction, to produce paper or to provide chemical feedstocks, with the production of oxygen as a byproduct. Furthermore, at the end of a product life cycle, the material constituents can be combusted, or composted to return the chemical constituents to the grand cycles . In essence, timber use represents a classic example of a cyclic materials flow, mimicking the flows of materials through natural cycles. Provided that we manage our forests well and do not harvest beyond the capacity of the planet to provide timber, we have at our disposal an inexhaustible resource available in perpetuity. 

To understand how UPS has maintained its vigilance and continued to grow its business over a ninety-eight-year period while avoiding the death spiral of corporate arrogance, hubris, and insularity, one has to understand the UPS culture and the UPS operations research mentality. The two are so integrated and intertwined that they are seamless and both are perpetuated today at UPS through stories, processes, measurement systems, human resource policies, and leadership acts. 

This confidence stems from a unique capability to co-evolve with the fluid IT environment within which Infosys operates. Continuity and change are inherent in Infosys s operations as it uses the very resources and capabilities it has built in the past as platforms to explore and exploit emerging opportunities. Scalability lies in Infosys s ability to encapsulate its past experiences such that the accumulated stock and associated flows result not in core rigidities - the perpetuation of Infosys as it once was - but in dynamic capabilities that fuel its continual transformation. That is, Infosys represents a continually upgradable platform, a firm that is always in the making. 

In most countries, solid waste containing metals such as neutralization sludge from the plating industry and flue dust from the metal and steel industries is currently collected and dumped in landfill, where it constitutes a perpetual toxic threat to the environment and a waste of resources. The alternatives to this landfill disposal are either to reduce the rate of discharge at source by an individually designed recovery process or to separate and recover the metals from the collected waste in a centrally located facility. A presumption for a centrally located facility would be that companies with metals in their effluents require treatment of their total wastewater streams. This could be accomplished through the relatively simple process of neutralization, which requires minor investment in sedimentation tanks and dewatering equipment and involves relatively modest operation costs. 

The cost for companies in terms of cash, possibly scarce water resources, ever tightening discharge limitations and perpetual liability for landfilled waste, requires that firms seek other solutions. The ideal solution is to develop economic point of use recycling and reuse systems. A technology that offers the potential for on-site recovery of a broad range of electronics and metal finishing applications is Advanced Reverse Osmosis (ARO). 

To the early Immigrants to the North American continent, the hundreds of millions of acres of forest must have appeared almost endless. In their eyes, it could have appeared as a limitless resource extending into perpetuity. For their numbers this may indeed have been the case, but little could they have reckoned with the population growth, and with it the demand for forest products some 300 years later. 

Organizations are assembled from diverse human resources to achieve defined missions through orderly action plans. In industry, organizations and their people are generally in perpetual competition with others in their effort to create profit. They strive to find pathways to distinguish themselves from competitors in the expectation of generating opportunities for company and personal growth within the social system. Robert Frost eloquently illuminated opportunities for distinction in his poem The Road Not Taken, which ends ... 

The NSF s University/Industry Cooperative Research Program is "especially commended." But "the IRI views with great caution proposals to establish new Generic Technology Centers, since there is significant risk that such laboratories may become a self-perpetuating drain on national resources and lack the necessary Inputs on market needs and opportunities to be an effective force in the innovation process."... 

Interdependencies in civil infrastrncture systems require much more attention and study. As long as we treat infrastructure systems in isolation, we will perpetuate suboptimal systems operations, inefficient resource use, and vulnerability to the risks and uncertainties of failure. 

Effort and subjective workload Effort consists of an unspecific mobilization of energy. It can either enhance adaptation or perpetuate inadequate task strategies. Workload expresses the consumption of physical and mental resources and the experience of time pressure while performing a task. Both measurements were taken from the NASA Taskload Index (Hart and Staveland, 1988). 

Sustainability stands for the ability to maintain into perpetuity our habitat and lifestyle without exhausting any natural resources. However, the degree of sustainability of a production process can be measured by these criteria ... 

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