In the news this week: sustainability at Walmart

By Walmart Green Room on April 21, 2012 Leave a comment

Lighting the way with LED

Walmart Puerto Rico adds LED parking lot lights

Building a renewable energy strategy, one block at a time

Solar-power rooftops in California and Texas

The Growing Power of urban gardens

Avoiding food waste by feeding rescued wild cats

Preserving habitat and open spaces

Piloting micro-wind

Direct Farm in Costa Rica

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David Ozment, Director of Energy

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We’d like to think sustainability is always a popular topic, but Earth Month definitely puts it in the spotlight. You can read more about our successes and struggles with sustainability in this story by Triple Pundit. Walmart’s size and scale is both an advantage and a disadvantage, and writer Bill Roth described the process this way in an interview with our Andrea Thomas, SVP of Sustainability: “What this means is that a lot of work goes into turning an aircraft carrier.”

Mother Nature Network also wrote this week about the progress we are making toward some of those goals, including Walmart’s 80 percent reduction in waste in 2011. But we know we can and must do more.

We are constantly working on solutions. We discussed some of them Wednesday during our Global Sustainability Milestone Meeting, which you can view as a webcast replay here.

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