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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions ... elephants/

There’s a paywall—sorry about that. The essay talks about his purchase of the Cameroon ebony supplier and his support of research on ebony sustainability. It turns out that elephants disperse ebony seeds in their dung.

A couple of quotes:
“ It’s a reminder that supply chains don’t begin in factories. They often begin in ecosystems, which are complex, interdependent and often poorly understood.”
“ The question isn’t whether businesses should help sustain the resources they use.
It’s whether they can afford not to.”

That is the thing I admire most about Bob - not just talk, action.

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Interesting article, which matches my impression of Mr. Taylor garnered from his book Guitar Lessons as a consummate production engineer and businessman that happens to have built some guitars on the way to establishing a successful globally sourced manufacturing business. My only disappointment was that the Post is ultimately the Post, so failed to extend Mr. Taylor's argument (or admonition if you will) to our cities and states re: recognition that actively destroying or passively participating in destruction of a functioning ecosystem is never a good idea, and plumbing the depths of the Curley Effect is awesomely unwise.

'Way OT, but you got me with the 'Curley Effect'; I thought it might have had something to do with the Three Stooges. Despite having lived a good part of my life in the Boston area I had to look it up. My initial impression wasn't so far off....