Posts tagged ‘Andrea Thomas’
Leading the green team
Andrea Thomas with a farmer in Zambia
Yesterday, an interview with our own Andrea Thomas appeared in GreenBiz as part of a regular feature on women in sustainable business. As senior vice president of sustainability, Andrea oversees environmental initiatives within Walmart as well as with other organizations helping to insert such efforts into our business operations. Even though she is the leader in this area, read why she tells contributor Maya Albanese that “sustainability is really everybody’s job.”
July 18, 2012 Walmart Green Room Leave a comment
Feeding the nine billion
How will we protect our land and water resources, and simultaneously, feed the world? By 2050, we expect the world’s population to increase by nearly two billion people, to nine billion.
How do we ensure that our planet is able to feed the nine billion, especially when hunger is already so prevalent? Continue reading
June 21, 2012 Andrea Thomas 1 comment
Set big sustainability goals, then work at them daily
Walmart’s company-wide goal is to create zero waste. Corrugated cardboard is bundled into bales and sent to paper mills to be recycled into new paper products.Last year, Walmart U.S. kept nearly 81 percent of waste out of the landfill.
As someone who leads the drive toward sustainability every single day at work, I’ve been thinking a lot about our commitment as we wrap up Earth Month 2012. Continue reading
April 30, 2012 Andrea Thomas 1 comment
In the news this week: sustainability at Walmart
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.
April 21, 2012 Walmart Green Room Leave a comment
Just how far along is Walmart on its sustainability journey?
Today, we release our 2012 Global Responsibility Report, Walmart’s annual update on global sustainability and social responsibility.
The report documents our progress on everything from energy, waste and water to disaster relief, diversity and giving. It also covers two initiatives we launched in 2011: healthier, affordable food and women’s global economic empowerment. Continue reading
April 16, 2012 Andrea Thomas 1 comment
Growing Power
When you are serious about sustainability, farming becomes a primary focus. We are in countries like China, training farmers to use fewer chemicals, and in Costa Rica, where our agronomists work with – and we buy directly from – small- and mid-size farmers. Continue reading
March 13, 2012 Andrea Thomas Leave a comment
‘Leading the charge in sustainability’
Solar panels on a Walmart in Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario
When it comes to sustainability, we believe in going big and setting ambitious goals that we are committed to attaining, even if we don’t immediately know how we’ll get there.
That’s just what happened in 2005 when we vowed to be supplied by 100 percent renewable energy. Continue reading
March 2, 2012 Andrea Thomas 13 comments
Two years later, the nation is on the move
Andrea Thomas at the Walmart Healthier Foods Announcement in Washington D.C.
Two years ago this month, First Lady Michelle Obama kicked off Let’s Move, targeting childhood obesity and focusing Americans on exercise and good nutrition. What has happened since? Don’t miss Ezekiel J. Continue reading
February 14, 2012 Andrea Thomas Leave a comment
Walmart unveils “Great For You” icon
Andrea Thomas announces the Walmart “Great For You” seal.
I’m in Washington D.C. right now where we have just announced the culmination of something that has been years in the making: we now have a simple, front-of-pack seal to help busy families identify healthy food options. Continue reading
February 7, 2012 Andrea Thomas 2 comments
