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On July 16th, Walmart launched a bold new initiative to assess companies and products along its supply chain. The Index asks 15 key questions, and its depth and complexity has immediately become a subject of debate. It also sets the stage for how we will understand and define ‘sustainability’, reflecting the view of the world’s largest retailer, Walmart, in partnership with academics, NGOs, industry groups, and other retailers.
Walmart released a guidance document this week that details how it will count the emissions reductions toward the retailers goal of squeezing 20 million metric tons of carbon dioxide from its...
The retail giant’s sustainability dreams don’t appear to have diminished, though it's clear the company has been humbled by the fiendish complexity of all it has set out to do....
In what promises to be a continuing trend, P&G joined Walmart in implementing a supplier sustainability scorecards program this spring. These programs are models for other manufacturers and...
Walmart and its fellow superpower in corporate sustainability, GE, have recently released their annual sustainability reports. While they highlight successes as well as shortcomings, they also...
In its 2010 Global Sustainability report released Tuesday, the company described its efforts over the course of a year in which it made a slew of notable headlines. The company has improved...
Patagonia, a company often heralded as a green business pioneer, is helping the world's largest retailer to...
Walmart's work helping its suppliers save energy and reduce their carbon footprints is a way to make its supply chain leaner, more resilient and more competitive. It’s time for more...
This report from Five Winds International explores how, from Walmart on down, retailers are becoming the key to corporate sustainability efforts across the supply chain....
Walmart's new commitment to cut 20 million metric tons of CO2 emissions from its supply chain is big news in and of itself, but it's the way the company will leverage its suppliers to make cuts...
GreenBiz.com Executive Editor Joel Makower sat down with Sustainability Consortium Co-Directors Jay Golden and Jon Johnson Wednesday to explore the role of the organization launched in the wake of...
For companies looking to increase their supply chain’s energy efficiency, China is a good place to start because it is a key location for energy-intensive manufacturing and its rank as the...
Walmart has awarded the World Resources Institute a $420,000 grant to help create a set of accounting tools for companies to measure the carbon footprint of their supply chains. The WRI will also...
This detailed FAQ explores the first phase in the Sustainability Index project launched in July 2009 by Walmart; it collects and examines the 15 questions that the company has begun asking of all...
Walmart's Product Sustainability Index will have a dramatic influence that will be felt well beyond the company's 100,000 or so suppliers....
In a wide-ranging and in-depth 90-minute conversation with Joel Makower, Rand Waddoups, Walmart's Senior Director for Sustainability explores the knowns and unknowns driving the retailer's...
Oct. 1 marks the official start of the first phase of Walmart's Sustainability Index, which offers both a huge business opportunity for suppliers and a potentially huge environmental business for...
Walmart’s mandate for stricter sustainability practices among suppliers poses huge challenges to firms -- as well as a windfall of opportunities for businesses that can clear the hurdles and...
With the announcement of Walmart's Sustainability Index and the release of 15 questions for its suppliers, the retail giant has ignited a far-reaching dialogue on supply chain transparency and...
The co-directors of Walmart's Sustainability Consortium, one key plank of the company's larger Sustainability Index, explain how the group will work -- and what companies get for the six-figure...
GE releases a citizenship report today that demonstrates that the $183-billion company is becoming not just cleaner and greener, but more open....
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In this report from the U.S. government, the GAO examines the EPA's efforts to date to...- This study, "Generating Sustainable Value: Moving Beyond Green Teams to...
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