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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)

A bulb a day keeps the climate at bay: Wal-Mart to push CFLs Are there downsides to the retail giant's efforts to up sales of CFLs?	Kif Scheuer	30 Aug 2006	Gristmill
We've heard scads about Wal-Mart turning over a big, fat green leaf (here and here and here and probably lots of other places, too). Well, here's another one reported by Fast Company that really left my jaw hanging open: In the next 12 months, starting with a major push this month, Wal-Mart wants to sell every one of its regular customers -- 100 million in all -- one swirl bulb. In the process, Wal-Mart wants to change energy consumption in the United States, and ener ...
Topics: 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)

Turns out Wal-Mart is greening	David Roberts	21 Aug 2006	Gristmill
As I am contractually obliged to flag each and every story on Wal-Mart's greening -- and to mention that you should read my op-ed -- I should let you know that the Wall Street Journal has a short piece on the subject. Sounds like things are going pretty well: David Redfield, vice president of marketing integration at the company's Sam's Club division, wasn't initially enthusiastic about the giant discounter's interest in trying to save the planet. "At first ...
Topics: Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Werbach and Wal-Mart	David Roberts	17 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Lest I let a single article about Wal-Mart pass by without notice: check out the San Francisco Bay Guardian's long look at Wal-Mart's greening and the company's hiring of Adam Werbach. (And lest I let you forget that I wrote an op-ed on the subject: here's my op-ed on the subject -- and a bloggy follow-up.) Listen to Werbach: ... Werbach went on to explain how respectfully his ideas have been received, and unlike in the municipal planning morass where good concep ...
Topics: 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)

Poll: Do you trust Wal-Mart?	Chris Schults	11 Aug 2006	Gristmill
According to these comments and the letters to the editor, there seems to be a bunch of you who don't believe Wal-Mart is actually going to implement their sustainability plans. I think it is time for a Friday poll! (Vote below the fold.)
Topics: 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)

More Wal-Mart	David Roberts	07 Aug 2006	Gristmill
This is funny, but it also plays into another point I want to make about Wal-Mart: After a long day searching houses in suffocating Iraqi heat, Lance Corporal Mike Wilson of Princeton, Kentucky recalls seeing relief in the distance. Wilson said that looking through the haze he thought he saw a Wal-Mart and was ready to get some cold water for his men when he discovered it was an illusion. (It's getting up around 125F in Iraq. Why are we there again? ...
Topics: 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's new ads Eating well is cheap! And fun!	Katharine Wroth	03 Aug 2006	Gristmill
Has anyone seen Wal-Mart's new commercial? I caught it -- full of happy children smearing themselves with organic food -- the other night. Apparently it started airing a few weeks ago, and is the first part of a multi-million-dollar campaign. According to Ad Week, it's the company's first ad campaign to focus on food. Related print ads will launch this month in several publications.I have to admit, the tagline 'organic food at Wal-Mart prices' sounds appetizing to me ...
Topics: 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)

The Death of Integrity In working with Wal-Mart, activist Adam Werbach is abandoning his principles	John Sellers, Barbara Dudley	19 Jul 2006	Soapbox
By John Sellers and Barbara Dudley 19 Jul 2006 In late 2004, Adam Werbach proclaimed that environmentalism was dead due to the movement's unwillingness to connect with ordinary working people and its inability to effectively grapple with the most profound problem the earth has ever faced, climate change. His diagnosis was clear: In order to build the next liberal majority in this country, environ ...
Topics: business, commercial and industry organizations, Sierra Club, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

The Writing on the Wal-Mart Al Gore takes his green message to Wal-Mart headquarters	Amanda Griscom Little	19 Jul 2006	Muckraker
Picture Al Gore standing in a modest auditorium deep in America's heartland before an exultant crowd of Wal-Mart employees, comparing their campaign to lighten the company's environmental footprint to the Allies' righteous struggle in World War II. This after Rev. Jim Ball, head of the Evangelical Environmental Network, likened the giant retailer's greening efforts to the wo ...
Topics: Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth, business, climate, Muckraker, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Amanda on Marketplace	David Roberts	12 Jul 2006	Gristmill
Following up on Amanda's post below -- check out her appearance on public radio's Marketplace, where she discusses Gore's appearance at Wal-Mart's meeting.
Topics: Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wal-Mart's quest for green Dispatch from a green-themed gathering of Wal-Mart execs	Amanda Griscom Little	12 Jul 2006	Gristmill
I write from a quarterly meeting of Wal-Mart managers and execs, focused on implementing CEO H. Lee Scott's eco-friendly vision. (For more on that vision, see my interview with Scott.) � I never dreamed I'd find myself feeling anything but depressed after a day of immersive conference activities at Wal-Mart headquarters in Bentonville, Ark. But now that I'm here, I'm feeling decidedly optimistic. Granted, I was a tad creeped out when the 800-plus memb ...
Topics: business, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

California Connected on organic and Wal-Mart	David Roberts	10 Jul 2006	Gristmill
A nifty PBS show called California Connected recently did a special on organic food, focusing on Wal-Mart's decision to get into the organic-food market. It's unusually substantive and thoughtful (at least relative to cable tv fare). Check it out.
Topics: business, food, organic food, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Al goes to Wal-Mart	David Roberts	07 Jul 2006	Gristmill
Several blogs have noted this item about Al Gore addressing the upcoming quarterly meeting on sustainability at Wal-Mart. Apparently Rich Cizik, Adam Werbach, and some other eco-luminaries will be there as well, and some fairly significant stuff is going to be announced. Our very own Amanda Griscom Little will be reporting from the scene. In the meantime, read her interview with Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott, and to wash that corporate taste right out of your pristine ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Step One: Get a Job With Better Health-Care Coverage Wal-Mart to educate employees on environment and health		22 Jun 2006	Daily Grist
Step One: Get a Job With Better Health-Care Coverage Wal-Mart to educate employees on environment and health Retail leviathan Wal-Mart, anxious to be the eco-friendliest big-box chain around, is developing a program to teach employees how to care for themselves and the environment. Anonymous sources say the as-yet-unveiled plan, tentatively named the Environmental Health and Wellness Program, will give ...
Topics: business, green living, news, Sierra Club, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Gas and Wal-Mart The big-box plot thickens	Katharine Wroth	21 Jun 2006	Gristmill
Was watching TV last night, and half paying attention during the commercials, when I heard something like this: 'High gas prices got you down? Do all your shopping in one place: Wal-Mart.'Oh, Wal-Mart. What to make of your ongoing evolution? Way back when, you were an in-town store. Then you became the hated icon of big-box suburbia, and a huge contributor to people driving more as part of their daily routines. Now you're twisting the driving thing to make it seem li ...
Topics: Wal-Mart (all these topics)

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