Tag: Walmart
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Walmart Introduces Supercube Tractor Trailers to increase fuel economy, get trucks off the road
There are a lot of good ideas in this truck; will they catch on?
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Walmart fined $81 million for dumping hazardous wastes
Stores and processing facilities mishandled pesticides among other dangerous substances.
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How Do You Build A Sustainable Business In A Suburban Sea Of Parking? Sorry, Walmart, You Can't.
This is what that phrase, "Lipstick on a Pig" was invented for.
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Abandoned Walmart Turned Into Giant Public Library With Gorgeous Interior. But Where Do They park Walmarts?
Adaptive reuse of dead big boxes is important, but what about context?
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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.
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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
