The Diva’s Picks 10.19.06
What Wal-Mart Wants Wal-Mart gets, well almost
Wal-Mart grows ‘green’ strategies
USA Today - USA
… powerful signal that already is having effects on the way people produce products … before,” says Matt Kistler, vice president of product and packaging innovation …
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/retail/2006-09-24-wal-mart-cover-usat_x.htm
Wal-Mart to Reduce Packaging
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
… In the latest effort to polish its environmental record, the world’s largest … its 600,000 global suppliers to find more efficient packaging methods, estimates …
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-walmart23sep23,1,566856.story?coll=la-headlines-business&ctrack=1&cset=true
The Organic Myth
Pastoral ideals are getting trampled as organic food goes mass market
Next time you’re in the supermarket, stop and take a look at Stonyfield Farm yogurt. With its contented cow and green fields, the yellow container evokes a bucolic existence, telegraphing what we’ve come to expect from organic food: pure, pesticide-free, locally produced ingredients grown on a small family farm.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/06_42/b4005001.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5
