Walmart recently released its 2010 Global Sustainability Report. Being the world’s largest public corporation, Walmart has enormous influence directly and indirectly to businesses around them. Whether your business has direct dealings with Walmart or not, it is worth taking notes on their targets, achievements, and future plans. In this post, I highlight three areas of their Canadian operations: energy efficiency, waste reduction, and packaging reduction. See how Walmart Canada save the environment while saving money.
Eighty-two percent of Canadian executives believe that a response to climate change is imperative today and plan immediate increases on spending for climate change initiatives, according to the new report Action Amid Uncertainty: The Business Response To Climate Change, based on a survey from Ernst & Young. Read this post on what Canadian companies are doing and what their future plans are for climate change, sustainability, and environmental initiatives.
Sustainability has become the second top business challenges according to a new survey of Canadian and global supply chain managers by Capgemini Consulting. 56% of companies now consider sustainability a key issue, up sharply from 34% from one year ago. Read this post on the details of the report, the key success factors to sustainable purchasing, and how to apply the 4R approach to reduce supply chain costs.
reThink Waterloo 2012: A Business Sustainability Forum. May 11, 2012. Waterloo. 
Carbon Economy Summit 2012: Regulation, Risk, Revenue. June 6, 2012. Toronto. 
