Category Archives: Walmart

EDF Heads to Atlanta for TSC's Spring Member Summit

By | Published: May 13, 2013

This week, Environmental Defense Fund's (EDF) Retail Team travels from Bentonville, AR to Atlanta to attend and speak at the The Sustainability Consortium’s (TSC) second Member Summit. EDF is an NGO member of TSC, an independent organization of diverse global participants who collaborate to improve consumer product sustainability through all stages of a product’s life [...]

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Walmart's Sustainability Trilogy: A Close-Up Perspective from EDF's Office in Bentonville

By | Published: May 10, 2013

By: Alisha Staggs, Bentonville-based project manager at Environmental Defense Fund In Marc Gunther’s recent article "Walmart’s index: a real life toy story," he calls the Walmart supplier Sustainability Index, "the biggest environmental initiative in the company's history," and Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) agrees. He also questions whether "Walmart is taking this too far”"and "how the [...]

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Walmart: Driving solar in California

By | Published: July 30, 2012

By Walmart Green Room What country ranks No. 1 in the world in solar? The U.S.? Japan? The No. 1 country is actually Germany, followed by the solar-loving country of Spain. Japan is next, followed by the United States. Solar is important to a future powered by renewable resources, one that reduces greenhouse gases and [...]

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Where is Walmart on the 'Hype Cycle'?

By | Bio | Published: March 30, 2012

Michelle Mauthe Harvey co-leads Environmental Defense Fund's on-site partnership with Walmart in Bentonville, Arkansas, advancing sustainable business practices throughout its operations and supply chain. Is Walmart more hype than reality? Having worked with Walmart since 2005, my colleagues and I at Environmental Defense Fund are often asking that question, stepping back from our day-to-day work [...]

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Putting Mother Jones Walmart Article in Perspective

By | Bio | Published: March 26, 2012

In an article posted online this week, Mother Jones magazine makes a sweeping critique of Walmart’s efforts to reduce the environmental impacts created by its Chinese supply chain. Having been closely involved with Walmart on these and other sustainability initiatives since 2005, we’d like to offer EDF’s perspective on the story, and on what’s at [...]

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Walmart finds money in a shoebox

By | Bio | Published: January 30, 2012

Walmart’s The Green Room recently published a blog about shoeboxes. For a behemoth retailer like Walmart, one would think that worrying about shoeboxes isn’t high on its list of priorities. But this attention to detail is the kind of thing that makes environmental progress possible and Walmart effective. Scale In 2005, Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) [...]

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How the Sustainability Consortium Creates 'Hot Spots' for Innovation

By | Published: December 19, 2011

By Will Pekel, Intern, Corporate Partnerships Program What if there was one source for comprehensive and credible information about the environmental and social sustainability of everyday products? Could such a resource accelerate the environmental and social change we need across the retail industry, from suppliers to retailers to consumers? In 2009, Walmart provided the initial [...]

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Powering Up: Walmart plans to install more solar panels and moves closer to its goal

By | Published: September 29, 2011

Walmart recently announced plans to install solar panels on all remaining eligible Walmart store locations in California, bringing the grand total to more than 130 stores by the end of 2013.  Each installation will provide approximately 20 to 30 percent of that location’s needed electricity and will produce 600,000 kilowatt hours of clean, renewable electricity [...]

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What Do Showerheads, Eggs and Clothing Labels Have in Common? Walmart.

By | Published: June 22, 2011
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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 [...]

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On the road to solid sustainability reporting, Walmart gets one step closer

By | Published: May 5, 2011

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 [...]

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