Wal-Mart: Green, greener or greenwashing?

Each week, one of every three people in America visits a US Wal-Mart store translating into 100 million customers every seven days, and that’s just in the US. Sam Walton’s founding philosophy that selling products cheap in volume equals a money making dynasty is hard to deny.
While the mega store wasn’t founded on sustainable principles, other than sustaining the Walton’s, the corporation responsible for moving over 300 billion dollars worth of merchandise in 2007 continues to announce green initiatives that are standing up to scrutiny.
Most recently, in an unusual display of transparency, Wal-Mart announced an energy and emissions tracking initiative …read more