{"id":2274,"date":"2008-01-09T22:43:48","date_gmt":"2008-01-09T21:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/01\/09\/pg%e2%80%99s-green-goals-criticized\/"},"modified":"2008-01-12T22:49:41","modified_gmt":"2008-01-12T21:49:41","slug":"pgs-green-goals-criticized","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/01\/09\/pgs-green-goals-criticized\/","title":{"rendered":"P&#038;G\u2019s Green Goals Criticized"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2008\/01\/09\/pgs-green-goals-criticized\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"080112_pg.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/01\/080112_pg.jpg\" title=\"080112_pg.jpg\" alt=\"080112_pg.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Proctor &amp; Gamble\u2019s move towards green isn\u2019t as significant as it initially appears, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.triplepundit.com\/pages\/procter-and-gamble-signals-a-s-002826.php\">argues<\/a> triplepundit.Last fall, P&amp;G <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2007\/10\/30\/pg-sets-sales-target-for-greener-products\/\">announced<\/a> a new goal of selling $20 billion of products over the next five years whose environmental impact is at least ten percent less than previously available products.  But according to this article, those numbers are less impressive than they first appear.  One student crunched the numbers to reveal that the eco-targeted $20 billion represents 5 percent of the total sales for the period and that achieving a 10 percent reduction in environmental impact of that 5 percent amounts to a 0.5 percent eco-improvement. Despite that, this article speculates that P&amp;G will have to be environmentally innovative to compete in some markets.  Take, for instance, Wal-Mart\u2019s  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sustainableisgood.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/index.html\">concentrated liquid detergent objective<\/a>. In October, an article came out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2007\/10\/01\/wal-mart\/\">saying<\/a> that Wal-Mart\u2019s objective could cost P&amp;G $200 million. Image source: environmentalleader.com. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2008\/01\/09\/pgs-green-goals-criticized\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: USA<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><font class=\"tdtext\">Procter &amp; Gamble, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=4\">Wal-Mart<\/a><\/font><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.environmentalleader.com\/2008\/01\/09\/pgs-green-goals-criticized\/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Leader<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Proctor &amp; Gamble\u2019s move towards green isn\u2019t as significant as it initially appears, argues triplepundit.Last fall, P&amp;G announced a new goal of selling $20 billion of products over the next five years whose environmental impact is at least ten percent less than previously available products. But according to this article, those numbers are less impressive&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":665,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"wds_primary_category":0,"wds_primary_post_series":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[74],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-pg","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/665"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}