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Walmart announces (in press release) it is now going to start using local farmers for produce.

Based on a panel discussion at UCLA, business leaders offer their insight on how to move your company towards sustainability.

"If Swedish furniture nazis IKEA have the balls to charge for plastic bags, why can't everyone else? Corporations love to squeeze every last buck out of the consumer, so why do they stop short when it ACTUALLY HELPS REDUCE WASTE?"

we do note that costco has NO bags... although everything there is very packaged and shipped a long way..

Wal-Mart CEO Lee Scott announced his company was introducing their own reusable shopping bag. The new Wal-Mart shopping bags are made from a fabric containing rPET. The bags are made from 85% recycled content and hold more than twice the amount of an average plastic bag. The bags will sell for $1 and be located near checkout aisles in Wal-Mart stores.

Wal-Mart, in a major announcement said by May 2008 it would only sell concentrated liquid laundry detergent in its US stores. The announcement from Lee Scott, president and CEO of Wal-Mart Stores will also cover Wal-Mart Canada.

Thomas Friedman on why we need to show leadership, and be CEO - Chief Energy Officer

“We love low prices, sure, but we frown at the things companies do to get us good deals — like paying low wages. In his book Supercapitalism, economist Robert Reich looks at the divided mind of the consumer and citizen. Reich subtitles his book “The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life,” and in it he asks tough questions about American priorities: “Why has capitalism become so triumphant and democracy so enfeebled? Are these two trends connected? What, if anything, can be done to strengthen democracy?”

Wal-Mart's current national advertising circular distributed in Sunday newspapers across the country this week features a 3/4 page focus on green products with a strong message on reducing packaging. The top of the page reads "Now you can save the planet while you save money." The new ad is a first for Wal-Mart and is very similar to an ad Target ran (sans the focus on packaging waste) in May in their national circular.