Tag: Walmart

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  The Big Part of Walmart's Eco-Impact the Bentonville Behemoth Forgot

  The Institute for Local Self-Reliance reminds us that Walmart's basic development pattern has a huge environmental impact, and doesn't feature in its latest sustainability report at all.

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  Walmart's Gives Itself a Green Pat on the Back With Its New Sustainability Report

  Walmart has just released its latest sustainability report, covering how much it has reduced waste, increased locally grown produce, increased renewable energy usage, and a whole host of chest-puffingly good green stuff.

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  France Restores Ban on GE Corn While U.S. Retailers Could Start Selling More of It

  France is reinstating a ban on Monsanto's MON810 genetically modified corn, after a 2008 moratorium was overturned by the country's highest court in November.

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  How Big Is The Gap Between Walmart's Sustainability Rhetoric & The Reality?

  One of the biggest environmental impacts of Walmart's business model isn't even talked about in its sustainability planning.

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  Networked Environmental Data Is Key to Driving Sustainability Mainstream

  If sustainability is going to become truly mainstream, we need millions of companies to engage, not thousands.

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  How Walmart Turned Its Weak Urban Image Into a Public Interest Campaign Against Food Deserts

  The USDA's "corporate-friendly definition makes sure only the opening of a large national grocery chain can eliminate a food desert, a situation that Walmart is using to its advantage."

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  Intel, Kohl's, Walmart Top List of US Green Power Purchasers

  Perhaps most notable on the latest quarterly update to the EPA green power purchasers list is that Walmart has jumped into third place.

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  Walmart Wants To Start A Conversation On Sustainability With Its New Green Blog

  Walmart's new green blog wants to start on conversation about sustainability. Anyone want to bet if the talk will veer towards the biggest question: Can big box retailing and consumerism ever be environmentally good?

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  Walmart Is Crushing Its Ambitious Global-Responsibility Goals

  Walmart, that bastion of cheap food, clothing, and everything in between, has corporate-responsibility goals that put every other big box retailer to shame.

• Are Walmart's Eco-Efforts Enough? Balancing Sustainability & Social Responsibility at America's Largest Retailer

  Walmart has been in the sustainability spotlight over the last few years, both for implementing its own efficiency measures and for raising the bar for industry at large. Some view these initiatives with skepticism because the

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  Walmart Announces Plan to Promote Healthy Foods

  With Michelle Obama there to applaud and promote the effort, Walmart announced a plan this morning to bolster healthy foods by reducing the sugar, sodium and fat content in its packaged foods, lowering fruit and vegetable prices, working

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  Walmart Gives $2 Million to Help Food Banks Go Green

  Walmart announced a new program today to help food banks around the country make energy efficiency improvements. The program will help 16 food banks in high-need areas make upgrades designed to bring lasting

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  The Real Picture Behind Walmart's "Love, Earth" Responsible Jewelry Line (Updated)

  Two years ago, Walmart launched Love, Earth, a jewelry line that would increase the transparency of the industry. Love, Earth would meet a new level of environmental and human rights standards—from mine to factory, it was

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  Walmart Adds 218,000 Acres to Wildlife Habitat Protection Program

  One more item to add to the list of reasons it's getting harder to hate Walmart: its Acres for America program is working to preserve hundreds of thousands of acres of wildlife habitat.Walmart's latest grant for the program will

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  Walmart's Newest Sustainability Initiative Focuses on Local Produce, Small Farmers

  Walmart announced the next steps it will take toward sustainability today, with a series of changes focused on increasing local produce in its stores and improving relationships with small- and medium-size farmers.

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  For Walmart Mexico, Sustainability Is a Group Effort

  Five years ago, Walmart began efforts to become a more sustainable company, not

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  Walmart Adding Thin-Film Solar Panels On 20-30 More Stores

  In continued efforts to deploy more renewable energy at its stores, Walmart announced today that it will be installing solar panels at an additional 20-30 of its stores in California and Arizona, opting at most of the locations to

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  Walmart 'Surprised' Greenpeace Singled Out Them For Indonesian Rainforest Destruction Criticism

  Responding to Greenpeace's recent report (a screengrab of which is above) on the wholesale destruction of Indonesian rainforest by Sinar Mas Group affiliate Asia Pulp & Paper, Walmart issued a press statement Wednesday expressing shock that it would be