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Wal-Mart Thinks Big With Smaller Stores

Posted by Environmental Leader on 04/11/2009

Future Wal-Mart locations will be about 8 percent smaller and cost 16 percent less to build, as the retail giant seeks to reduce waste throughout its operations.The store sizing effort is part of Wal-Mart’s Project Impact, which will see through a remodeling and repositioning of many locati ...

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DOE Shows Commercial Builders How to Achieve 50% Energy Savings

Posted by Environmental Leader on 28/10/2009

Building owners in four key commercial building sectors will now be able to achieve a 50-percent energy savings with the help of new technical documents that show how to achieve higher levels of performance.New technical support documents from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the DOE natio ...

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NRDC Criticizes 7-Eleven Banana Packaging

Posted by Environmental Leader on 12/10/2009

C-store giant 7-Eleven thought it was onto something good when it began testing individual plastic packaging designed to a keep banana yellow and firm for five days, as opposed to brown and turning to mush on the shelf.After all, “customers want yellow bananas – not brown,” said ...

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Delhaize Cuts Energy use by 3.5%, Eliminates CFCs

Posted by Environmental Leader on 07/08/2009

Delhaize Group (DG), a Belgium-based international food retailer, has reduced energy use companywide by 3.5 percent, and has eliminated the use of ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) at all operating companies in 2008, according to the company’s corporate responsibility 2008 report. ...

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Consumers Want More Green Info at Retail Level

Posted by Environmental Leader on 07/08/2009

About 40 percent of shoppers say they are left wanting when it comes to green information at the retail store level, according to a new report from Miller Zell.Overall, retailers earned a D- for the quality of information on green products provided at the store level.Members of the Gen Y and Mill ...

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