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Our Jaw: Still Dropped Wal-Mart's eco-initiatives turning Arkansas into sustainability hotspot		07 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 9:14 AM on 07 Sep 2007 Attention shoppers: we bring you news of the latest sustainability hotspot, none other than Fayetteville, Ark. Green start-ups are flocking to town, the University of Arkansas has established an Applied Sustainability Center, and the mayor rides an electric bike to work. Why? Because of a certain retail giant whose headquarters lies half an hour away. Say it with us no ...
Topics: Arkansas, business, green living, greenish companies, news, placemaking, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Changing the world, one Wal-Mart 'associate' at a time A new article examines enviro Adam Werbach's decision to work with Wal-Mart	David Roberts	29 Aug 2007	Gristmill
The cover story in the latest issue of Fast Company is a long chin-scratcher about enviro-wunderkind Adam Werbach's decision to go to work for Wal-Mart. Is he selling out? Is he part of a new wave of more pragmatic environmentalism? Will he change Wal-Mart or will it change him? The article references (though does not, ahem, cite the source) an essay from John Sellers and Barbara Dudley called 'The Death of Integrity,' which takes the "Werbach's a sellout" p ...
Topics: business, greenish companies, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

15 Green Corporate Leaders		30 Jul 2007	Main Dish
Corporations have been blamed for all manner of environmental evils -- and, in many cases, for good reason. But a growing number of powerful CEOs are seeing the green light. The corporate leaders highlighted here don't run wholly sustainable companies, by any means (many, like Wal-Mart and Pepsi, still have big problems to tackle), but they're making serious attempts to green their products and operations, and the effects of their efforts are rippling thr ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, greenish companies, lists, Prius, Richard Branson, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Pimp My Shrimp Wal-Mart environmental practices changing shrimp farming in Thailand		25 Jul 2007	Daily Grist
Pimp My Shrimp Wal-Mart environmental practices changing shrimp farming in Thailand Latest practice impacted by omnipresent Wal-Mart: Thai shrimp farming. Crustacean aquaculture, long demonized for destroying mangrove trees and polluting waterways, is the focus of new standards penned by the Global Aquaculture Alliance and backed by Wal-Mart, Red Lobster, and other big seafood purveyors. To make the ...
Topics: aquaculture, business, food, news, Thailand, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Mackey's wacky stock tips Whole Foods CEO secretly hearts Wal-Mart	Tom Philpott	12 Jul 2007	Gristmill
In January 2005, a poster on a Yahoo message board made a bold prediction on how Whole Foods stock would fare. '13 years from now Whole Foods will be a $800+ stock,' he insisted, adding that 'the company is going to keep on strongly growing for another 10+ years.' Looking at the company's stock chart (and adjusting for splits), we can see he was calling for ninefold increase by 2018. So far, the prediction looks shaky. Today, Whole Foods stock trades at a lower p ...
Topics: business, food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Goals Gone Wild GE's green division makes money, makes plans		25 May 2007	Daily Grist
Goals Gone Wild GE's green division makes money, makes plans General Electric CEO Jeff Immelt gushed about his company's green successes at a second-anniversary celebration for the "ecomagination" unit yesterday, noting that it had sales of $12 billion last year, has back orders for $50 billion more, and will "blow away" the original goal of $20 billion by 2010. Hooray for innovation ...
Topics: business, greenish companies, news, tech, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Sheddy Mercury Wal-Mart to cut mercury content in compact fluorescent bulbs		11 May 2007	Daily Grist
Sheddy Mercury Wal-Mart to cut mercury content in compact fluorescent bulbs As energy-saving compact fluorescent light bulbs move their way into the mainstream, concerns about their mercury content are spiraling up too. Soon, however, consumers will be able to find less-toxic CFLs for always low prices. Yes, Wal-Mart announced yesterday that its bulb suppliers will reduce mercury content by about one- ...
Topics: business, energy, mercury, news, shopping, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Kohl's beats Wal-Mart Clean-up on aisle ... earth	Adam Browning	08 May 2007	Gristmill
Maybe not on price, but on solar.Wal-Mart just announced about 10 MW of solar on 22 stores. Nice. Kohl's, a grocery chain department store, is doing 30 MW. Nicer. These are significant contracts, and the companies signing them deserve kudos for putting their money where their mouths are.
Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wal-Mart's organic bust And another way forward.	Tom Philpott	12 Apr 2007	Gristmill
On April Fool's Day, Grist ran a fake bit on how Wal-Mart had 'pulled the plug' on much-ballyhooed green initiatives, including its plan to to become the nation's number-one organic grocer. 'In the end, our customers value low prices more than sustainability, and at Wal-Mart, we listen to our customers,' Wal-Mart's CEO (fictionally) said. As so often happens these days, fact may be leaping ahead of satire. BusinessWeek reported today that the retail behemoth ...
Topics: business, food, greenwashing, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wal-Mart: it still totally sucks New Yorker article reminds you why you hate it	Lisa Hymas	30 Mar 2007	Gristmill
Stacy Mitchell did a bang-up job earlier this week of explaining why Wal-Mart and other big-box stores could never actually be green. But if you need a more wide-ranging reminder of Wal-Mart's deep and abiding loathsomeness, check out Jeffrey Goldberg's article in the latest New Yorker: 'Selling Wal-Mart: Can the company co-opt liberals?' If you've been awake the past few years, you're already familiar with many of the criticisms, but they're neatly packaged up here wi ...
Topics: business, green living, greenwashing, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Keep Your Eyes on the Size The impossibility of a green Wal-Mart	Stacy Mitchell	28 Mar 2007	Soapbox
Photo: Lone Primate via Flickr With its recent flurry of green initiatives, Wal-Mart has won the embrace of several prominent environmental groups. "If they do even half what they say they want to do, it will make a huge difference for the planet," said Ashok Gupta of the Natural Resources Defense Council. Environmental Defense, meanwhile, has deemed Wal-Mart's actions momentous enough to w ...
Topics: business, greenwashing, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

But Wait, There's More Wal-Mart CEO announces new energy-focused sustainability initiative		02 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
But Wait, There's More Wal-Mart CEO announces new energy-focused sustainability initiative First Prince Charles jets across the Atlantic just to accept an eco-award, and now he's hanging out with the likes of Wal-Mart chief Lee Scott. Is there anything His Royal Highness won't do to piss off self-righteous greens? Has he considered biting the head off an endangered salamander? While we await his next move, we appl ...
Topics: business, news, United Kingdom, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wal-Mart overdoes it All these green initiatives, oy	David Roberts	01 Feb 2007	Gristmill
Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott just announced a comprehensive new initiative called 'Sustainability 360,' which will attempt to infuse environmental concern in every part of the company's operations:'Sustainability 360 takes in our entire company - our customer base, our supplier base, our associates, the products on our shelves, the communities we serve,' said Scott. 'And we believe every business can look at sustainability in this way. In fact, in light of current environme ...
Topics: business, greenwashing, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Brit's Eye View: British supermarkets are going green But why?	Peter Madden	25 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Peter Madden, chief executive of Forum for the Future, writes a monthly column for Gristmill on sustainability in the U.K. and Europe. British supermarkets are now competing to go green. Two big retailers have just launched initiatives to tackle climate change. Marks & Spencer, which sells food and clothing to Britain's middle classes, promised this month to cut waste, sell fair-trade products, and make the company carbon neutral within five years. Environme ...
Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, United Kingdom, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

McKibben on 'green' Wal-Mart Wal-Mart may sell organic, but it also thrives on ruined downtowns and long freight hauls.	Tom Philpott	21 Nov 2006	Gristmill
I've always been a bit appalled by the polite applause with which some enviros greet Wal-Mart's 'green' initiatives. Seems to me that the only way the company could really 'go green' would be to stop selling cheap plastic crap shipped in from halfway around the world in vast suburban megastores. In other words, completely change it's business model -- not, say, adopt 'green' building techniques for its appalling superstores, or haul mass-produced 'organic' food from Cal ...
Topics: Bill McKibben, business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

What's in Your Wal-let? Wal-Mart issues a progress report on its experimental eco-store		13 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
What's in Your Wal-let? Wal-Mart issues a progress report on its experimental eco-store The company greens hate to love is releasing a report today on progress at its year-old, experimental eco-store in Aurora, Colo. Wal-Mart is trumpeting its successes, from waterless urinals to LED lights in its freezers, and acknowledging its, uh, challenges, such as wind turbines that have short-circuited and recycled rubber ...
Topics: business, news, renewable energy, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Box Populi Wal-Mart will push suppliers to reduce packaging by 5 percent		25 Sep 2006	Daily Grist
Box Populi Wal-Mart will push suppliers to reduce packaging by 5 percent In its latest effort to woo enviros (and, of course, save some dough), Wal-Mart has unveiled a five-year plan that it believes will reduce packaging on the products it sells by 5 percent. Speaking at the Clinton Global Initiative meeting on Friday, Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott announced that his company will push its 60,000 suppliers to reduce the am ...
Topics: business, green living, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Up Against the Wal-Mart Big buyers make organic farmers feel smaller than ever	Tom Philpott	23 Aug 2006	Victual Reality
With Whole Foods continuing to dazzle Wall Street with its growth and Wal-Mart vowing to become the world's No. 1 organic grocer, now would seem to be a wonderful time to be an organic farmer -- particularly one with enough acreage to supply the corporate giants. According to classical economics, when demand jumps, supply should follow, pulled up by the good's rising price. But a funny ...
Topics: agriculture, business, California, food, organic food, Victual Reality, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

A new natural capitalism	Maywa Montenegro	17 Aug 2006	Gristmill
I'm going to sit the fence on Kit's poll by saying that reigning in climate change will require both a re-envisioning of capitalism and a revision of our core values. An excellent professor of mine at MIT introduced our class to the concept of 'natural capitalism,' pioneered by Paul Hawkins and Amory and L. Hunter Lovins. Their 1999 book on the subject, probably familiar to many of you, was an eye-opener for me at the time. Here is a short synopsis of the book from ...
Topics: Amory Lovins, Bill McKibben, business, oil, politics, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Eatin' Good in the Neighborhood Why 'the market' alone can't save local agriculture	Tom Philpott	16 Aug 2006	Victual Reality
Why "the market" alone can't save local agriculture By Tom Philpott 16 Aug 2006 The local-food movement has reached an interesting juncture. Through one lens, things are looking better than ever. According to a USDA report (PDF), the number of farmers' markets leapt 79 percent to 3,100 between 1994 and 2002. Community-supported agriculture programs -- wherein consumers buy a share of a farm's output before the season starts, sharing the risks and rew ...
Topics: agriculture, business, CSAs, farmers markets, food, local food, sustainable ag, Victual Reality, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wal-Mart is not a person	David Roberts	11 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Your AWOL blogger here, just to make a quick point: Bart is very right about what he says here. Chris' poll is fun, and it's interesting to see the results, but it's worth emphasizing that Wal-Mart is not a person. It's not a sentient entity. We (human beings) seem to have an irresistible tendency to anthropomorphize, and it's as true here as anywhere else. We conceive of Wal-Mart as a big bully, or a liar, or a hypocrite, or a sinner seeking absolution, etc. But t ...
Topics: business, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wal-Mart's green makeover	David Roberts	08 Aug 2006	Gristmill
I have an op-ed on TomPaine.com today about Wal-Mart's recent green initiatives. Give it a read. I'm sure the accusations of corporate whoredom will come rolling in at any moment. I worry that, even given the copious pixels expended, my overall point was not entirely clear. So below the fold, I shall try to express it in more compact form. The basic dilemma Wal-Mart's greening poses is this: they're doing good environmental things -- real things, substantive thin ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wal-Mart's devious profit motive	David Roberts	07 Aug 2006	Gristmill
I'm in the midst of writing an op-ed about Wal-Mart's green transformation. One theme that comes up frequently in the commentary is this: Wal-Mart is "only" doing these things because they'll improve the bottom line. Um ... yeah. It's a business. It's supposed to make money. As a publicly held corporation, it's required by law to make money. If it went around doing things that deliberately reduced its profits, it would be subject to a shareholder lawsui ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wal-Mart and culture	David Roberts	03 Aug 2006	Gristmill
This NYT piece about Wal-Mart's failure to fit in culturally in various of its international conquest states is just fascinating. Apparently wanting everything available in one place, at the lowest possible price, in huge impersonal stores is not a fundamental feature of human nature, but a cultural artifact. In Germany, for instance, the company is just giving up entirely. Trolling through the article, I pulled out these nifty tidbits: In Germany, Wal-Mart stoppe ...
Topics: business, Germany, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Learning to love Wal-Mart	David Roberts	27 Jul 2006	Gristmill
We've done some good stuff on Wal-Mart's greening, but Marc Gunther's cover story in Fortune this week pulls it all together better than any single story I've seen, and advances it in some interesting ways. Particularly in reference to our ongoing debate over morality, listen to Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott: To me, there can't be anything good about putting all these chemicals in the air. There can't be anything good about the smog you see in cities. There can't be a ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

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