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Walmart’s Sustainability Initiatives Explained

Posted on June 25, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image courtesy of Matt Kistler/Walmart This guest post was written by Matt Kistler, senior vice-president of sustainability at Walmart. At Walmart, sustainability continues to make us a better company by reducing waste, lowering costs, driving innovation, and helping us fulfill our mission to save people money so they can live better. In 2005, when we began our sustainability journey, we learned that taking a leadership role and collaborating with others that share our commitment and passion for sustaining the environment could benefit … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Let the Crowds Determine Green Ratings

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image credit: Methodhome.com The wisdom of crowds is urgently needed in assessing the greenness of products and companies. Today, if you want to validate the social and environmental quality of a product or company, you have a plethora of choices—all with their distinct limitations, and with the result that consumers remain as confused as ever when trying to identify more sustainable products. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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India & Brazil Ranked Most Sustainable Consumers in National Geographic Greendex – US is Last (Again)

Posted on June 3, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Container ship on the Mississippi River near New Orleans. All photos and captions courtesy National Geographic. The latest installment of the National Geographic and GlobeScan’s Greendex rankings of consumer behavior in 17 countries has been released, with similar results to past years: India, Brazil and China rank as the most sustainable, with the US and Canada ranking last. The good news is that improvements were seen in most of the countries surveyed…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Butterfly Biomimicry Can Curb Counterfeiting of Banknotes

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

Image via University of Exeter The iridescence of butterfly wings have been the source of inspiration for more energy efficient yet vivid displays , but their shine is proving useful for brightening up not just our gadgets, but the money we buy them with as well. Researchers are looking in to how biomimicry can foil the efforts of would-be forgers, using the radiant colors created by light rather than pigment…. Read the full story on TreeHugger

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UNEP Report Shows Green Movement Has Its Priorities Straight (More or Less…)

Posted on June 1, 2010 by Benny Hollywood| Leave a comment

photo: Peter Megyeri via flickr In case you’ve been wondering lately if this whole tree-hugging nonsense has its priorities straight, wondering if those of us in the environmental movement are focusing on the right areas of greatest ecological impact, the UNEP has just released a new report detailing which human activities are causing the greatest harm. Many of these reports are jargon-filled and sometimes intimidating if you’re not used to reading them and this one is no different;