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June 19, 2012

In Bed Together: EDF & the Walton Family

Since 2004, the Walton Family Foundation has given EDF (the Environmental Defense Fund) more than $53 million. Last year, the foundation’s donations totaled a

May 28, 2010

Some Big Steps Yield a Small One of Our Own

Here’s a retailing truth: You can’t be in the business of selling consumer products without thinking about Walmart. The merchandising behemoth sells

October 6, 2008

Strange Bedfellows?

Why Seventh Generation is Doing Business with Walmart’s Marketside Stores I’ve sometimes said that hell would freeze over before Seventh Generation would ev

July 3, 2008

Walmart & the Sins of Our Fathers

“Judge King wrote that Ms. Braun had recounted the humiliating experience of soiling herself while at work because she had not been permitted time to use

October 1, 2007

The Wal-Mart CEO Sustainability Summit

Imagine 400 CEOs representing Walmart’s largest vendors all sitting in one room pondering the future of sustainability. Aside from representing trillions of d

April 6, 2007

What is it they still don’t get?

Yesterday the Financial Times reported “Nuns shocked at being on Wal-Mart’s list of threats. A community of Benedictine nuns based in Texas has called o

April 5, 2007

The Annals of Spin

This weeks New Yorker Magazine (4/2/07) features a long negative story about Wal-Mart’s effort to “co-opt liberals.” This is another in the series of good

November 2, 2006

Back in the Belly of the Jolly Green Giant

Wal-Mart’s Sustainability Milestone Meeting It caught me off guard, even though I should have expected it. Seated in the front row of the Sam Walton auditoriu

July 6, 2006

The Jolly Green Giant

On July 26th Fortune Magazine released a cover story on Wal-Mart  under the banner “Wal-Mart Saves the Planet, well not quite…” Something is going on her

May 2, 2006

Watching Wal-Mart

Last Thursday Andy Grossman Executive Director of Wal-Mart Watch (URL) headed up from Washing DC – center of what some people think of as the political univer

January 1, 2006

Lee &’s Most Powerful Business Man

I have spent over a month contemplating this trip. Why does the President of the worlds largest company want to spend time with me? A tiny Vermont business lead

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