When working with the world’s largest retailer, you come to expect the unexpected. But what’s truly exciting is to help drive the unexpected. Last year, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) worked with Walmart on a goal to reduce 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from its supply chain and product lifecycles over the [...]
Last week as environmentalists across the country were getting excited for the 41st annual Earth Day, EDF’s Walmart team was eagerly anticipating another annual event – the release of Walmart’s 2011 Global Responsibility report. This is Walmart’s fourth sustainability report, and our third year blogging about it, and we are pleased to see that this [...]
In July 2009, Walmart began the development of a sustainable product index called the Sustainability Index. Like most folks in the corporate sustainability world, I was incredibly impressed and excited about the prospects of this mean, green, sustainability machine. But I was also a bit intimidated by what it entailed. If that sounds like you, [...]
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