Kindermusik green: "The Greenest Thing Ever To Happen to Retail"??

Tuesday, July 14, 2009

"The Greenest Thing Ever To Happen to Retail"??

Walmart's Sustainability Index could be the greenest thing ever to happen to retail.

Interesting. Walmart's still no good for Main Street, but as one of a half dozen stores that can actually change WHAT is manufactured and HOW, this truly is a staggering step.

Not only would products' environmental information be labeled; the idea is that Walmart would also exercise its purchasing power BASED ON this data. Meaning products and companies with bad environmental records and effects would be LABELED as such if they were in the store, but might also not even make it into the store in the first place.

A story worth following.

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GREEN DICTIONARY

sustainability
1. ability to be sustained or maintained
2. capacity to maintain a certain process or state indefinitely
3. ability to meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs

Daly’s Rules:
1. Renewable resources must be used no faster than the rate at which they regenerate.
2. Nonrenewable resources must be used no faster than renewable substitutes for them can be put into place.
3. Pollution and wastes must be emitted no faster than natural systems can absorb them, recycle them, or render them harmless.
(Source: University of Maryland School of Public Policy professor and former Chief Economist for the World Bank Herman E. Daly (working from theory initially developed by Romanian economist Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen and laid out in his 1971 opus "The Entropy Law and the Economic Process"))

carbon footprint

1. The total amount of carbon dioxide (CO2) produced to support human activities, directly or indirectly.
2. The total amount of CO2 attributable to the actions of an individual (which includes emissions through their energy use, as well as other unforeseen emissions) over a period of one year.