What’s New Watch a short interview with Howard Brown on Why Reducing Resources Can Drive Innovation from the NAEM Forum. Howard explains what he means when he says: We need to decouple the production of stuff from the production of wealth; People don’t want light bulbs – they want light; and If you don’t use [...]
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Resource Performance,
WalMart
What’s New On the blog this week, you don’t want to miss Howard’s post, “Turning Environmental Metrics Inside Out,” which was originally published on NAEM’s Green Tie blog. Howard makes the case that despite all the hard work going into CSR, ESG, and SRI ratings, “The present cacophony of indicators, measurement systems, and analytical models [...]
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packaging,
Shipping,
supply chain,
Sustainability,
WalMart
WalMart has been shrinking the size of its super centers by about 25 percent, and now it’s developing much smaller stores for urban markets. Target is piloting new stores that are a fraction of existing ones – as little as one-third the size. Target’s strategy for its new urban stores is about making the store [...]
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We talked recently about pollution as nothing more than “lost” resources. We’re seeing growing evidence that more people and businesses are thinking about waste as valuable resources, from a device that uses dog waste to power a light, to the example in this photo from a local Wal-Mart store. All of the shipping boxes being unpacked at [...]
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valuable resources,
WalMart,
Waste
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