Walmart's greenwash
Live chat about Walmart’s greenwashing
Stacy Mitchell wants to chat with you.Replay our (no longer) live chat with Stacy Mitchell about Walmart, below. Mitchell, a senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance, is writing a series of articles for Grist about Walmart’s sustainability efforts and how they’ve been coming up short. Read the series so far:
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Walmart's greenwash
Walmart by the numbers: Green vs. growth
Walmart’s six-year-old sustainability campaign has helped improve its public image, enabling the company to grow bigger and faster. That growth, ironically, has dramatically increased the retailer’s environmental footprint, and hurt local economies and the U.S. job market along the way.
Walmart's greenwash
Is your stuff falling apart? Thank Walmart
Forever in blue jeans, babe? Not anymore.Photo: bburkyMy friend Tony’s closet is as good a place as any to begin an investigation of Walmart’s environmental impact. Tony has a pair of Levi’s that date back to high school more than …
Walmart's greenwash
Think Walmart uses 100% clean energy? Try 2%
Walmart is moving like a tortoise toward its clean-energy goal.Context is critical to understanding Walmart’s sustainability initiatives and their impact on the retailer’s overall environmental footprint. But context has been sorely absent in the news media’s coverage of Walmart’s green …
