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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 ... |
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| Topics: consumerism, energy, energy efficiency, shopping, Wal-Mart (all these topics) |
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