As Goes Wal-Mart…Retailer Says Green Product Adoption Up In 2007. April 23, 2008 Wal-Mart has announced an adoption rate increase of 66 percent from last year in its sustainability Live Better Index, which has been tracking consumers’ decisions to purchase five key eco-friendly products since April 2007. The index follows the adoption rates – sales compared to other products in the category – of five eco-friendly products based on Wal-Mart sales data. The retailer says that an overall adoption rate of these products serves as a nationwide trend indicator of consumer demand for green products.
The data for April 2008 shows a 37 percent increase in adoption of organic milk and a 47 percent increase in adoption of compact fluorescent light bulbs since April 2007. As a whole, Wal-Mart says that adoption rates of the five sustainable Live Better products have increased significantly over the past year: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. See the index here. Krispy’s Blog vol gevraagde en ongevraagde meningen » Open IO: A. Internet blijft verbazen, en zeker het Sustainability Consortium, waar nu 2 Nederlandse bedrijven lid van zijn. Na Unilever (dat een van de founding members is) is ook Ahold toegetreden.
En het consortium lijkt door te zetten op open data in machineleesbaar format: Open IO is an Input/Output based life cycle inventory database that provides a free, comprehensive, transparent and continually improving resource for product sustainability information and analysis for both corporate decision makers and academic researchers. The project will provide information on the major impact categories (GHG, Water use, Toxics, Criteria Polutants, etc). This project will serve as a core element to ongoing or future extension projects, including the Industry Average Database Framework, the Global Open IO model and others. The current Open IO dataset provides life cycle information on greenhouse gas emissions.
Heeft iemand informatie of Nederlandse universiteiten en kennisinstellingen, zoals bv. Wal-Mart's Green Strategy Raises Serious Issues - The Conversati. By Bob Lurie | 1:20 PM June 30, 2010 Wal-Mart’s move to eliminate 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gases from its supply chain in the next five years is impressive. It’s also an example of the world’s largest retailer exerting a blunt form of regulatory vigilantism. Please don’t get me wrong. Wal-Mart’s program clearly makes a positive difference for a company which would emit a whole lot more carbon without this program. That said, let’s take a moment to consider how Wal-Mart’s move affects businesses that now have no choice but to react to this mandate. No one outside of Wal-Mart gets a vote. Regulation on the scale and scope Wal-Mart is pursuing — usually carried out by governments — often carries with it unintended consequences.
In Wal-Mart’s case, I expect we will discover unintended consequences for suppliers and the broader economy, long after the fact. Should we do it this way?