A Sustainable Walmart…

BySustainMe

Check out the Corporate Responsibility Report by Walmart for 2012. http://www.walmartstores.com/sites/responsibility-report/2012/pdf/wmt_2012_grr.pdf This is very impressive. It not only includes such things as Energy and Carbon Footprint from all of Walmart’s stores, it also addresses the impact of the products and foods from suppliers and how sustainable they are. Walmart’s goals of renewable energy are pretty impressive, but they step up and state the long-term obvious: the long-term goal is 100% renewable energy. They are moving toward…

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Ikea starts generating solar power at Tampa store… If Idea can do it…?

BySustainMe

Ikea starts generating solar power at Tampa store | TBO.com: Well, if Ikea can do it, why can the rest of us. Solar on the roof-tops of buildings (stores and homes) seems like a great way to start cutting back on traditional electricity (~45% coal). It shouldn’t take a Swedish company to tell us (show us, really) what we should be doing to become more sustainable. Check out their 2011 Sustainability Report.  They are doing…

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DOW’s Solutionism. !:-)

BySustainMe

Dow Solutionism: This is a very cool concept from DOW. Solutionism… Kinda a cure for consumerism, where it’s all about how much you can consume in your lifetime. Maybe this should be one of the cures for consumerism, one of the great Social Irresponsibilities? Interesting idea. Work backwards from each problem — and the associated solutions to them — into helping address the root cause of the original problem. Generally we tend to symptom solutions, not real…

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Innovation: Social Irresponsibility: Energy, cost of carbon

ByBizMan

Check out the workings for markets in Carbon…Cap n trade, tax and trade, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Australia does Carbon Tax and shift. Texas sets up a Carbon Exchange. California has a huge lift in the prices of Carbon allocations (CCA) because of the down time of a nuclear power plant. Overall, the price per ton of carbon is now at between $8 and $23.Anything above free, is probably a very good thing for the true…

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Social Irresponsibility: Energy and the cost of carbon

BySustainMe

These are all part of a dramatic change in the way that we view carbon emissions. There are three things that are prominently in the news about carbon emissions and addressing them in June of 2012. These are all part of a dramatic change in the way that we view carbon emissions. Australia is opening up a Carbon Tax at $23 per ton. They are adjusting from the mistakes of Europe when they started cap and trade at…