In this 30-minute radio interview on Sea Change Radio, Stacy talks about Walmart’s environmental impact and its greenwashing.
Walmart’s expansion is making our food system more concentrated and industrialized than ever before. … Read More
Over the last decade, Walmart has emerged as one of the country’s largest funders of political campaigns. Its dollars skew heavily in favor of candidates...
Even as Walmart has been hyping its supposed environmental epiphany, it has continued to unroll vast, low-rise supercenters at breakneck speed. Since 2005, Walmart has...
In 2009, Walmart unveiled grand plans to create a Sustainability Index that would, within five years, result in green labels for all the products it...
In 2005, Walmart announced that it was setting a goal of being “supplied by 100 percent renewable energy” — and has since received a steady stream...
Chairs don’t hold together like they used to. Neither do toys, toasters, vacuum cleaners, or Levi’s. Walmart, with its relentless demands that manufacturers cut costs,...
Our Harper’s Index-style look at Walmart’s impact on the environment and local economies. … Read More
The world’s biggest retailer has gotten lots of great press since it launched its sustainability campaign six years ago, but in many key areas it...
I winced yesterday when James Gavin, chair of the Partnership for a Healthier America, said he’d like to see Walmart double its U.S. store count....
Despite the ample publicity Wal-Mart has engineered for its "buy local" efforts, the company in fact has zero interest in cultivating local suppliers beyond stocking...
Raising the pay of Wal-Mart’s U.S. workers to a minimum of $12 an hour would lift many out of poverty and cost the average consumer,...
See Major Flaws Uncovered in Study Claiming Wal-Mart Has Not Harmed Small Businesses for additional graphs. … Read More
An overflow crowd of hundreds turned out yesterday at a New York City Council hearing on the impact Wal-Mart would have if allowed to expand...
What journalists and even environmentalists so often fail to do in reporting on Walmart’s sustainability announcements is to provide context.… Read More