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Just Beyond the Parking Lot Wal-Mart gobbles up local produce		02 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 11:55 AM on 02 Jul 2008 You thought you took home a haul at the farmers market last week, but you've got nothin' on Wal-Mart. The big-box retailer has become the nation's largest buyer of local produce, planning to purchase and sell $400 million worth of locally grown fruits and veggies this year. Wal-Mart says it works with "hundreds" of individual farmers, and has 50 percent more partnerships with local growers t ...
Topics: business, food, greening biz operations, greenish companies, local food, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Well, That Changes Everything! CEO settles the debate over whether Wal-Mart is green		13 Mar 2008	News
Posted at 5:04 PM on 13 Mar 2008 Is Wal-Mart an eco-angel or an eco-devil? CEO Lee Scott himself settles the debate, declaring at a Wall Street Journal conference: "We are not green." source: The Wall Street Journal From the Archives Drill Team. Alaska senators introduce legislation to open Arctic Refuge to drilling. The Fiber of Our Being. Legalizing hemp would help environ ...
Topics: business, greenish companies, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

But three of its stores have skylights. How bad could it be? Don't let Wal-Mart's greenish diversions distract you	Guest author	05 Feb 2008	Gristmill
The following is a guest essay by Alex Goldschmidt, online editor at Wal-Mart Watch.----- Photo: Lone Primate Wal-Mart has been trying its hardest to distract its environmental critics. In a carefully orchestrated act of diversion, the company shows off its skylights and light bulb sales. In doing so, Wal-Mart has managed to draw attention away from the other, deeper environmental problems lying at the heart of the company's business model. Wal-Mart's ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, greenish companies, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Scott Glee Wal-Mart CEO outlines lofty green goals		24 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 1:44 PM on 24 Jan 2008 Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott made a big ol' speech yesterday spelling out ambitious social, health, and environmental goals for the retail behemoth. Wal-Mart will work with other retailers to boost industry-wide green standards, said Scott, and, within five years, Wal-Mart suppliers will be required to meet stringent environmental standards -- and may even be paid more to do so. The company wants to double its sales o ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, progress, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Wherefore Art Thou, Romeoville? Wal-Mart will open more-efficient stores		16 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 4:38 PM on 16 Jan 2008 Wal-Mart -- ah, always Wal-Mart -- has plans to open four stores that "will operate at a level that's 25 percent more efficient than a traditional Wal-Mart supercenter," according to a representative. The chain, which has a goal of someday having all of its 2,400 U.S. stores reach that level of efficiency, is using tricks it learned from experimental stores in Texas and Colorado. ...
Topics: business, green building, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

So MINI to Choose From Hybrid Technologies converts gas-powered cars to electric		18 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 4:09 PM on 18 Dec 2007 Obsessed with MINI Coopers but also like the idea of zero-emission electric vehicles? Have your car and drive it too: a company called Hybrid Technologies guts cars such as the MINI, smart fortwo, and PT Cruiser, and replaces their gas tanks with an electric motor and a stack of lithium batteries. Convinced? Starting in 2008, you'll be able to buy your electric MINI at Wal-Mart -- f ...
Topics: business, cars, electric vehicles, greenish companies, news, placemaking, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

Sears of Joy Sears and KMart will phase out PVC, Wal-Mart accused of eco-naughtiness		13 Dec 2007	News
Posted at 1:36 PM on 13 Dec 2007 Big-box behemoths Sears and Kmart have agreed to phase out nasty plastic PVC from all products in their 3,800 stores. While admirable, the announcement merely makes those stores the lemmings of PVC abandonment; IKEA, Wal-Mart, and Target have all previously agreed to go PVC-free. In other big-box news, the nonprofit Environmental Investigation Agency has accused Wal-Mart of sour ...
Topics: business, green living, greening biz operations, greenish companies, logging, news, shopping, toxics, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

We'll Drink Beer for the Cause Wal-Mart will track some suppliers' energy efficiency		24 Sep 2007	News
Posted at 5:36 PM on 24 Sep 2007 Unrelenting in its quest for eco-domination, Wal-Mart has announced a plan to keep tabs on some suppliers' energy efficiency. Through a partnership with the Carbon Disclosure Project, Wal-Mart will request emissions data from about 30 companies that collectively supply DVDs, toothpaste, soap, milk, beer, vacuum cleaners, and soft drinks. (Sure they're all commonly used, but -- r ...
Topics: business, greening biz operations, greenish companies, news, 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)

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)

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)

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 shade of green is that? Wal-Mart store goes eco-friendly?	Corey McKrill	21 Jul 2005	Gristmill
Wal-Mart's new big-box store being constructed in McKinney, Texas, has a twist: It will employ several conservation methods and green technologies, making it the company's first 'environmentally friendly' store. Apparently, not only will it have a wind turbine to generate 5% of its power, and a rainwater catchment system for 95% of its irrigation needs, but it will use waterless urinals in its restrooms and recycle its oil from the deli and automotive departments to he ...
Topics: business, greenish companies, greenwashing, Wal-Mart (all these topics)

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