Tag: <span>supply chains</span>

Shortening Supply Chains to Flatten the Curve

“Check out these masks that Kat’s mom made us. 2 for each of us <3”, I sent from New York, in a text message to my mom and brother.  “Found the n95 mask!” my brother, in Massachusetts, responded two days later.  These texts, sent after weeks of shopping in makeshift …

International Trade and Sustainable Development: An Interdisciplinary Understanding–by Casey Hughes

This January, first-year Bard CEP students went to Oaxaca, Mexico for a course examining resource management, sustainable development and international trade dynamics. The activities of the trip highlighted how community dynamics and global economic drivers influence resource management and the sustainability of development. One approach to sustainable development that I …