Tag Archives: Supply Chain

Hunting for environmental hotspots in Walmart products

By | Bio | Published: July 12, 2010

At Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), our work with Walmart focuses on leveraging the company’s buying power to reduce the environmental impacts of consumer goods. One of the clearest points of leverage is Walmart’s own store brands—Great Value, Sam’s Choice, Equate, and others that account for a sizable and growing percentage of the company’s sales. An [...]

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Five barriers to energy efficiency savings – and how smart companies can overcome them

By | Bio | Published: April 19, 2010

Here’s a business conundrum for you: energy efficiency saves serious money, cuts carbon pollution, requires low tech solutions, and is a known quotient, having been around since the 1970s. So why are so many companies still not taking the necessary steps to identify and eliminate these inefficiencies? “What we learned in Econ 101 doesn’t hold [...]

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Use Night-Vision Goggles to Uncover Innovations through Sustainability

By | Bio | Published: April 14, 2010

This morning, I spoke on a panel called “Driving Innovation Through Sustainability” at the Fortune Brainstorm Green conference.  Given that the panel was held at the eye-popping hour of 8 AM, it’s testament to the topic that the room was overflowing.  Or perhaps the draw was my fellow panelists – Matt Kistler, Senior Vice President [...]

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Walmart suppliers have questions, we have answers: Join the Sustainability Index webinar on Wednesday

By | Published: March 30, 2010

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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Lessons Learned for Reducing Transportation Emissions in the Supply Chain

By | Bio | Published: March 4, 2010

“How are companies addressing the environmental impact of transportation in their supply chains?” This was the leading question of a recent article in the MIT Sloan Management Review business journal. Its well worth reading for anyone interested in corporate transportation emissions. The article is wide-ranging; covering air, rail, long-haul trucks, and light-duty fleets.

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Why Walmart's Carbon Commitment Can Make Such a Difference

By | Bio | Published: February 25, 2010

Archimedes said "Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth," when explaining the principle of levers. Leverage is the big news about Walmart’s announcement today. The company has committed to reducing 20 million metric tons of carbon pollution from its products’ lifecycle and supply chain over the next five years. That’s [...]

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Accounting for the Nuts and Bolts of Supply Chain GHG management

By | Bio | Published: March 30, 2009

Lots of energy is going into figuring out how to properly account for indirect GHG emissions from a company's business activities (scope 3) and the GHG emissions associated with a company's products. Just over a week ago, I joined a group of NGO, business, academic and consulting experts as part of the WRI/WBCSD GHG Protocol [...]

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Bringing Lifecyle and Value Chain Analyses together…at Last

By | Bio | Published: March 27, 2009

A webinar hosted by the Supply Chain Council this morning on GHG Accounting in the Supply-Chain brought me back to a question I've been chewing on for a long time. How can we best take advantage of the complementary methodologies of life cycle assessment (LCA) and value chain analysis (VCA) for better supply chain management? [...]

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