Under what has become known as the “dark store” method, big-box retailers are declaring their busy stores to be functionally obsolescent and therefore nearly worthless...
No company moves as much stuff across the world’s oceans as Walmart does, and the climate consequences are immense. Ferrying all those cheap TVs, T-shirts,...
Having used its supercenters to capture one-quarter of U.S. grocery sales, Walmart is building a new wave of smaller stores that are poised to clean...
Walmart continues to expand, and rapidly. The company is now embarking on its third historic wave of store construction, with plans to build 440 to...
The Sustainability Leaders badge is straight out of Walmart’s 10-year-old greenwashing playbook. Once again, Walmart has engineered an appealing media story about itself as a...
Stacy Mitchell, senior researcher at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance (ILSR), issued the following statement on Walmart’s sustainability progress. … Read More
The political interests of labor and small business are often seen as pitted against each other — a perception corporate lobbyists work hard to perpetuate....
Walmart has been strutting around decked out in solar panels lately. But look a little closer and this emperor’s outfit isn’t all that it appears...
As a growing group of environmental leaders call on Walmart to stop greenwashing and commit to real sustainability, a new study from the Institute for...
Walmart talks a lot of talk about its renewable energy initiatives, but a new ILSR report finds that all that hype is just slick greenwashing...
A recent study has documented, for the first time, how the big-box retailing revolution led by Walmart and other big chains has dramatically increased the...
Although few cities take full advantage of them, planning and zoning powers are among the most potent tools communities have for shaping their economies. Two...
The scale of Walmart’s renewable energy efforts are no where near the scale of the company’s operations. … Read More
When Walmart’s top executives organized a live broadcast event to present what they claimed was progress in greening the company’s operations, ILSR joined with leaders...
We are writing today as leaders of some of the nation’s leading environmental organizations. We are coming together to demand real changes from Walmart –...