{"id":2383,"date":"2008-03-13T21:54:03","date_gmt":"2008-03-13T20:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/03\/13\/walmart-%e2%80%9cwe-are-not-green%e2%80%9d\/"},"modified":"2008-03-16T22:36:55","modified_gmt":"2008-03-16T21:36:55","slug":"walmart-we-are-not-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/03\/13\/walmart-we-are-not-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart: \u201cWe Are Not Green\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2008\/03\/13\/walmart-we-are-not-green\/?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"080319_walmartceo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/03\/080319_walmartceo.jpg\" title=\"080319_walmartceo.jpg\" alt=\"080319_walmartceo.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Lee Scott Jr. has earned a reputation as something of an environmental guru for actions he has taken over the past few years in getting Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to green up its act. But this morning at the ECO:nomics conference in California, the president and CEO of the retail giant took some attendees aback by flatly declaring: \u201cWe are not green.\u201d Mr. Scott was actually being candid when a questioner asked how he could reconcile why Wal-Mart\u2019s carbon emissions were continuing to grow despite its <a href=\"http:\/\/www.walmartstores.com\/GlobalWMStoresWeb\/navigate.do?catg=217\">much-publicized efforts to reduce its carbon footprint<\/a>. He said Wal-Mart is trying, but it also needs to grow at the same time. In fact, Mr. Scott said, \u201cI haven\u2019t a clue,\u201d when asked when he expected the company to meet his stated goal of having zero waste and 100% renewable energy over time.He did say Wal-Mart is making great strides. Among other steps, he said the company is working with its thousands of suppliers to reduce the amount of cardboard and other plastic packaging in its products. The company is also looking into ways to reduce the amount of plastic in bottled water, he said. The impetus for the company in doing all this isn\u2019t just to please environmentalists, he said, but more to save money. \u201cIt really is about how you take cost out, which is waste,\u201d he said. The savings by taking out wasted material helps keep prices low for Wal-Mart\u2019s customers, many of whom live paycheck to paycheck. Indeed, Mr. Scott \u2014 in remarks to reporters after his talk \u2014 said the current economic slump is prodding Wal-Mart even more to undertake its waste-reduction program. \u201cWhen is a better time?,\u201d he said. Image source: wsj.com. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2008\/03\/13\/walmart-we-are-not-green\/?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: USA, China<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><font class=\"tdtext\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=4\">Wal-Mart<\/a><\/font><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2008\/03\/13\/walmart-we-are-not-green\/?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Capital \/ WSJ.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Scott Jr. has earned a reputation as something of an environmental guru for actions he has taken over the past few years in getting Wal-Mart Stores Inc. to green up its act. But this morning at the ECO:nomics conference in California, the president and CEO of the retail giant took some attendees aback by&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":[19],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-wal-mart","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383","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=2383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2383"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}