{"id":628012,"date":"2023-04-11T17:53:15","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T22:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sellorbuyhomefast.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/a-rose-by-any-other-name-supply-chains-and-carbon-emissions-in-the-flower-industry\/"},"modified":"2023-04-11T17:53:15","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T22:53:15","slug":"a-rose-by-any-other-name-supply-chains-and-carbon-emissions-in-the-flower-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2023\/04\/11\/a-rose-by-any-other-name-supply-chains-and-carbon-emissions-in-the-flower-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"A Rose by Any Other Name: Supply Chains and Carbon Emissions in the Flower Industry"},"content":{"rendered":"<section id=\"details-section\" role=\"tabpanel\">\n        <span>April 11, 2023<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Headquartered in Kitengela, Kenya, Sian Flowers exports roses to Europe. Because cut flowers have a limited shelf life and consumers want them to retain their appearance for as long as possible, Sian and its distributors used international air cargo to transport them to Amsterdam, where they were sold at auction and trucked to markets across Europe. But when the Covid-19 pandemic caused huge increases in shipping costs, Sian launched experiments to ship roses by ocean using refrigerated containers.<\/p>\n<p>The company reduced its costs and cut its carbon emissions, but is a flower that travels halfway around the world truly a \u201clow-carbon rose\u201d? Harvard Business School professors <strong>Willy Shih<\/strong> and <strong>Mike Toffel<\/strong> debate these questions and more in their case, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/store.hbr.org\/product\/sian-flowers-fresher-by-sea\/623008?sku=623008-PDF-ENG\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sian Flowers: Fresher by Sea?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/hbr.org\/podcast\/2023\/04\/a-rose-by-any-other-name-supply-chains-and-carbon-emissions-in-the-flower-industry\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Laine Culton<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>April 11, 2023 Headquartered in Kitengela, Kenya, Sian Flowers exports roses to Europe. Because cut flowers have a limited shelf life and consumers want them to retain their appearance for as long as possible, Sian and its distributors used international air cargo to transport them to Amsterdam, where they were sold at auction and trucked<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":628013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2156,4247],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-628012","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-other","8":"category-supply"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=628012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/628012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/628013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=628012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=628012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=628012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}