{"id":2989,"date":"2009-01-26T09:57:44","date_gmt":"2009-01-26T08:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/index.php\/2009\/01\/26\/wal-marts-incoming-ceo-to-expand-environmental-push\/"},"modified":"2009-01-30T10:10:48","modified_gmt":"2009-01-30T09:10:48","slug":"wal-marts-incoming-ceo-to-expand-environmental-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/2009\/01\/26\/wal-marts-incoming-ceo-to-expand-environmental-push\/","title":{"rendered":"Wal-Mart&#8217;s incoming CEO to expand environmental push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSN26386971\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"090130_walmart.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/090130_walmart.jpg\" title=\"090130_walmart.jpg\" alt=\"090130_walmart.jpg\" align=\"right\" \/><\/a>Wal-Mart Stores Inc&#8217;s new leadership (<span style=\"cursor: pointer\" id=\"symbol_WMT.N_0\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/finance\/stocks\/overview?symbol=WMT.N\">WMT.N<\/a><\/span>) plans to expand efforts to reduce waste, use renewable energy and push suppliers to clean up their act, the company&#8217;s incoming chief executive officer said on Monday. &#8220;We want to accelerate our efforts in sustainability. We want to broaden our efforts,&#8221; said Mike Duke, who will become Wal-Mart&#8217;s CEO on Feb. 1 when Lee Scott retires from that position. Speaking at a &#8220;Sustainability Milestone Meeting,&#8221; which was broadcast over the Internet, Duke said Wal-Mart&#8217;s suppliers and employees need to make sustainability a priority. &#8220;I am very serious about it. This is not optional,&#8221; Duke said. &#8220;It&#8217;s not something of the past. This is all about the future.&#8221; Image source: walmartstores.com. &gt; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSN26386971\" target=\"_blank\">Continue<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>News selected by Covalence <span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| Country: Global<\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"><\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> | Company: <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethicalquote.com\/newTemplate\/index.php\/ethicalquote\/?value=8\"><\/a>Wal-Mart<span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\"> <\/span><span class=\"LinkBlueTransMedium\">| <\/span>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/latestCrisis\/idUSN26386971\" target=\"_blank\">Reuters<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wal-Mart Stores Inc&#8217;s new leadership (WMT.N) plans to expand efforts to reduce waste, use renewable energy and push suppliers to clean up their act, the company&#8217;s incoming chief executive officer said on Monday. &#8220;We want to accelerate our efforts in sustainability. We want to broaden our efforts,&#8221; said Mike Duke, who will become Wal-Mart&#8217;s CEO&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":[],"post_series":[],"class_list":["post-2989","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry","no-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989","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=2989"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2989\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2989"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2989"},{"taxonomy":"post_series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.covalence.ch\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_series?post=2989"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}