19.12.2010

LG Pushes Suppliers towards the Green

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Sometimes, it isn’t enough for a business to be trying to reduce its environmental footprint. A business is often the center of a web, with suppliers and vendors that are also producing their own impact. While the company itself is reducing its impact, it isn’t necessarily making the smaller businesses it is connected to reduce their own effect. This is something that LG Electronics hopes to correct. LG Electro
13.11.2010

Walmart Canada Taps Wind, Solar Power

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There’s something different about Walmart Canada, and its not the location. The company’s new $115 million, 400,000-square foot distribution center in Balzac, Alberta, boasts its first-ever use of electric vehicles, powered by hydrogen fuel cells The facility is also topped by wind turbines and solar thermal panels for power generation. Two 30-kilowatt wind turbines are on the ground of the center, whic
23.09.2010

Walmart and H&M Commit to More Environmental Friendly Production Processes

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According to sayings, you can tell the latest color trends in fashion by looking at the hue of the rivers in China. Every season, dyes get dumped into Chinese rivers after they are circulated through fallible textile mills, and they leave behind hazardous chemicals in the water. There are more environmental friendly and cost-effective options to producing textiles, but most factories, specifically the smaller and o