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Wal-Mart’s campaign to protect the environment, poor – Dec. 3, 2008
Children who are forced to pick cotton in Uzbekistan, farmers scratching out a living in Guatemala and salmon fishermen in Bristol Bay, Alaska, would not seem to have much in common. But all are feeling the global impact of Wal-Mart.
As the world’s largest retailer, with $379 billion in revenues last year, Wal-Mart has long been a powerful force in the global economy – a bully, its critics would say. For years, they assailed Wal-Mart for squeezing suppliers over costs, driving mom-and-pop stores out of business or crushing efforts to organize its workers.
These days, though, the company is winning praise for using its leverage – that’s a polite term for bullying – to protect the environment and help the poor.
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SiliconRepublic.com: Green energy – how electricity 2.0 will be bigger than Web 2.0 – R&D
You could be forgiven for thinking that the technology industry today is all about smart phones and Web 2.0. But the smartest minds in Silicon Valley have their eyes and wallets on a bigger prize, and it’s a century-old resource called electricity.
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Hawaii to be 1st state with electric car stations – Yahoo! News
Hawaii has unveiled plans to be first in the nation to roll out electric car stations statewide — a move the governor hailed as a major step toward weaning the islands off oil.
