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Compact With the Devil Wal-Mart to sell its own brand of compact fluorescent light bulbs		20 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 11:14 AM on 20 Sep 2007 Giganto-retailer Wal-Mart announced today it will roll out its own brand of compact fluorescent light bulbs in nearly 75 percent of its U.S. stores by the end of the month. The company plans to price the energy-saving bulbs cheaper than the brand-name CFLs they carry, offering a four-pack for about $7.58, comparable in price to a typical brand-name three-pack. Wal-Mart hopes ...
Topics: energy efficiency, news, United States, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

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)

Bulb news All about lighting	David Roberts	11 May 2007	Gristmill
The WorldWatch Institute discusses a burst of new efforts from various and sundry governments to ban incandescent bulbs. Wal-Mart is using its considerable monopsony powers for good, forcing its suppliers to substantially reduce the amount of mercury in CFL bulbs. (Cool about the Wal-Mart solar buy too, huh?) CFL schmeeFL. LEDs are coming on strong!
Topics: energy, energy efficiency, green living, green products, 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)

The Route of the Problem Following U.S. consumerism through the fields of China and Brazil	Tom Philpott	12 Apr 2007	Victual Reality
In what surely counts as one of the greatest feats in the history of global trade, the United States has essentially outsourced its manufacturing base to China in little more than a decade. It all starts with shuttered factories. Photo: iStockphoto But in doing so, the U.S. has helped unleash new trends in global agriculture that threaten global climate stability and biodiversit ...
Topics: ag policy, agriculture, Brazil, China, industrial ag, United States, Victual Reality, 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)

Chow Pain Faced with contaminated food, Chinese shoppers pony up for organics		13 Feb 2007	Daily Grist
Chow Pain Faced with contaminated food, Chinese shoppers pony up for organics Got a hankering for lard made from sewage and industrial oil? Look no further than the mean streets of China's cities. Such "fake food," along with real food contaminated by pollution and pesticides, is showing up on shelves -- and turning the stomachs of urban denizens. As a result, according to state-conducted research, mo ...
Topics: China, food and agriculture, news, 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)

Lighting the way Wal-Mart pushes CFLs	Kate Sheppard	03 Jan 2007	Gristmill
Wal-Mart has has started a new campaign to push compact fluorescent light bulbs in their massive retail stores, according to an article published in the New York Times yesterday. Though only a reported 6 percent of homes use CFLs currently, Wal-Mart hopes to sell 100 million of the bulbs each year by 2008.'The environment is begging for the Wal-Mart business model,' Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott Jr. told the Times.Just the latest in the ongoing greening of Wal-Mart. Howeve ...
Topics: consumerism, energy, energy efficiency, shopping, 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)

The Case of the Mislabeled Case Wal-Mart accused of incorrectly labeling organic products		16 Nov 2006	Daily Grist
The Case of the Mislabeled Case Wal-Mart accused of incorrectly labeling organic products Ah, Wal-Mart -- always reliable for some good old-fashioned eco-drama. This week, the Cornucopia Institute, an activist group representing small farmers, filed a complaint with the U.S. Department of Agriculture that accuses Wal-Mart of incorrectly labeling or otherwise misrepresenting various products ...
Topics: Department of Agriculture, food and agriculture, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wal-Mart accused of mislabeling items as organic Watchdog group files complaint with USDA	Lisa Hymas	15 Nov 2006	Gristmill
Wal-Mart has been mislabeling non-organic food items as organic, charges the Cornucopia Institute in a complaint filed with the USDA. Reports the AP: Mark Kastel, co-director of the nonprofit institute, said he and other researchers visited at least a dozen Wal-Mart stores in four states throughout the Midwest to see how organic items were selling. But they found problems, he said, such as dairy coolers stocked with regular yogurt -- by brands that also make organic var ...
Topics: food, 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)

Oops, almost missed one Yet another story on Wal-Mart	David Roberts	26 Sep 2006	Gristmill
As you know, I'm required by law to point out each and every story on the greening of Wal-Mart, if for no other reason than to find a way to plug my own op-ed on the subject. So with that in mind, don't miss USA Today's longish piece on every green's favorite source of cognitive dissonance.
Topics: 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)

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