Walmart's TreeHugger.com Columns
Walmart contributes a sustainability-focused guest column to TreeHugger.com. The goal of this collaboration is to provide an update on Walmart’s environmental and social efforts, as well as share with others the challenges and opportunities we encounter in our efforts to become a more sustainable company. Latest Treehugger.com Columns
September 2011 Walmart Brazil Rethinks Products From End to EndWalmart's environmental sustainability goals aren't just limited to our operations in the United States; they extend everywhere around the world that we have a presence. At Walmart Brazil, one of the many sustainability initiatives that we've begun is our End-to-End Project, which analyzes the entire life cycle of select consumer products to reduce their environmental impact.
August 2011 Sustainable Packaging Goes Beyond SizeWhen we talk about more sustainable packaging at Walmart, we're focusing on more than just smaller packaging. We're looking at the entire lifecycle of packaging and knowing that improvement can take many forms including rethinking a product, rethinking a process, and rethinking a presentation.
July 2011 Taking the Road Less Traveled to Reach Lofty Shipping GoalsSince 2005, our focus has been on taking trucks off the road by reducing the number of miles we drive and driving our miles as efficiently as possible. This is just one way we keep our operating costs low so we can pass our savings on to customers, while at the same time reducing our carbon footprint.
June 2011 Healthy Eating is Important and it's Getting Easier With more than 140 million customer visits each week, we have an opportunity to make a real difference in the nutritional quality of the food we sell, so we have a long-term goal to make food healthier and make healthier food more affordable.
May 2011 Why Massive Food Waste is Cause for Global Concern Few issues will be more important to the world and its fastest growing markets than food and agriculture, and it will only become a larger issue in the future. Producing more food and eliminating food waste will require large-scale, global solutions.
April 2011
Lighting the Future: Walmart Converting Hundreds of Stores' Lot Lighting to LEDs
Following the Long Trail of Impacts to Reduce Environmental Costs
November 2010 Why Sustainable Agriculture is Important to Walmart  September 2010 For Walmart Mexico, Sustainability Is a Group Effort Walmart Mexico and Central America hosted a two-day sustainability forum this month - "Juntos por un Planeta Mejor (Together for a Better Planet)." This event offered the opportunity for us to learn from our supplier  August 2010 Sustainability and the Importance of Engaging Everyone Walmart has introduced a new global program, My Sustainability Plan (MSP), to help engage and support our associates who want to choose an activity that will allow them to become more sustainable.  July 2010 The Challenges and Opportunities of a Sustainability Index Last July, we announced that we would lead in the creation of a Sustainable Product Index - a tool that will help manufacturers, merchants, customers and other retailers make more sustainable purchasing decisions.  June 2010 Walmart's Sustainability Initiatives Explained 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.
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