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Walmart: Still the green giant

May 19, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Walmart and GE are the superpowers of corporate sustainability. They have enormous impact (WMT) and influence (GE). Recently, I hosted a dinner about sustainability for Motorola where an executive named Bill Olson described how the company developed its Eco-Moto W233 Renew carbon neutral, energy efficient, environmentally friendly phone... [read more]

Wal-Mart to cut 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas pollution by 2015

February 27, 2010 by Joseph Romm
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What do you think of the sustainability efforts of the retail giant? Our guest blogger is Sarah Collins, intern with CAP’s Energy Opportunity team at the Center for American Progress. In 2009, Wal-Mart received the Aspen Institute Energy and Environment award for Corporate Energy Efficiency.  To build on this success, Wal-Mart just... [read more]

Two cheers for Wal-Mart’s CO2 pledge

February 25, 2010 by Marc Gunther
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Until now, Walmart’s bold sustainability efforts were marred by a glaring omission. The $405-billion a year retailer has worked hard since 2005 to save energy, reduce waste and sell more sustainable products. But it resisted pressures to reduce or hold steady its own greenhouse gas emissions. In fact, its carbon emissions have grown,... [read more]

Exclusive: Wal-Mart’s sustainability index

July 14, 2009 by Marc Gunther
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Wal-Mart will make a big announcement this week: The company, working with consumer-goods manufacturers and a group of universities, will unveil plans to measure the sustainability of every product it sells. In time, sustainability labels could provide us with information about the environmental and social attributes of consumer goods,... [read more]