Walmart. Emit Less. Live Better (5/6/13)

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🗓️ 5 June 2013

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Walmart. Emit Less. Live Better Walmart and other large companies are pushing their suppliers to reduce packaging, waste and energy use to save companies money and reduce carbon pollution. The goals of zero waste and 100 percent renewable energy are big and audacious. According to Aron Cramer, CEO of Business for Social Responsibility such goals are also necessary. “We won’t be able to maintain economic growth if the environment starts to get in the way,” he says. Along with important steps towards a more sustainable supply chain Walmart has an emphasis on energy. “Energy efficiency has to go hand in hand with renewable energy,” says Andrea Thomas, Senior Vice President of Sustainability at Walmart. To Walmart renewable energy is a business opportunity and she says they now in a position to start scaling. Aron Cramer agreed with the significance of renewables saying distributed energy could “be a business opportunity for retailers.” A conversation with two top executives on sustainable capitalism. This program was recorded in front of a live audience at The Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco on May 6, 2013 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:29.6	How will we power our future? Can we create a healthy and clean economy? Climate One
0:35.7	at the Commonwealth Club is at the forefront of the global debate about energy,
0:39.6	economy, and the environment.
0:41.5	Bringing together the brightest and most provocative leaders of our time, climate one is the place where big ideas get heard.
0:48.2	With thoughtful and insightful discussions on policy, business, science, and culture,
0:52.7	Climate One founder Greg Dal Dalton gets to the heart
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1:00.8	conversation about America's energy, economy, and environment. To understand any of them, you have to
1:05.1	understand them all. I'm Greg Dalton. Today we're talking about corporate sustainability, realizing
1:10.0	that business as usual is simply not sustainable in the long run.
1:13.8	Walmart and many other large corporations have programmed to reduce their energy use.
1:18.3	They also promote cleaner products and healthier customers and employees.
1:22.1	Those innovative efforts have driven down carbon pollution and added up to real savings for companies and consumers.
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