{"id":2832,"date":"2008-10-22T14:54:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-22T13:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2008\/10\/22\/wal-mart-in-china-going-green-despite-the-downturn\/"},"modified":"2008-10-31T15:00:26","modified_gmt":"2008-10-31T14:00:26","slug":"wal-mart-in-china-going-green-despite-the-downturn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2008\/10\/22\/wal-mart-in-china-going-green-despite-the-downturn\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart in China: Going Green Despite the Downturn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2008\/10\/22\/wal-mart-in-china-going-green-despite-the-downturn\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"081031_wal-mart.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/081031_wal-mart.jpg\" title=\"081031_wal-mart.jpg\" alt=\"081031_wal-mart.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB122463357082356711.html\">Wal-Mart\u2019s push <\/a>to make its stores and suppliers in China more environmentally-friendly cuts to the heart of one of the big debates these days: Is a \u201cgreen economy\u201d the antidote to or a potential victim of the economic crisis?\u00c2\u00a0 Wal-Mart\u2019s drive to make its Bejing stores more energy-efficient and to force local suppliers to comply with stricter environmental standards means additional short-term costs. Wal-Mart had to <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinajournal\/2008\/10\/21\/a-green-test-for-wal-mart-china\/\">special order<\/a> the new, efficient lights for its Chinese superstores, for instance. But Wal-Mart has <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2008\/03\/13\/walmart-we-are-not-green\/\">always preached<\/a> the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2008\/01\/23\/everyday-low-carbon\/\">bottom-line benefits <\/a>of its green conversion, arguing that energy efficiency and streamlined production and shipping mean lower costs in the long run. That\u2019s the pitch Wal-Mart president and chief executive H. Lee Scott is trying out on recalcitrant Chinese suppliers already thumped by rising costs and closing factories. Image source: AP \/ blogs.wsj.com. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/environmentalcapital\/2008\/10\/22\/wal-mart-in-china-going-green-despite-the-downturn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<br \/>\nNews selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: 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\/10\/22\/wal-mart-in-china-going-green-despite-the-downturn\/\" target=\"_blank\">Environmental Capital &#8211; Wall Street Journal<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wal-Mart\u2019s push to make its stores and suppliers in China more environmentally-friendly cuts to the heart of one of the big debates these days: Is a \u201cgreen economy\u201d the antidote to or a potential victim of the economic crisis?\u00c2\u00a0 Wal-Mart\u2019s drive to make its Bejing stores more energy-efficient and to force local suppliers to comply&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-2832","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\/2832","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=2832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2832"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}