By Chuck Ring (GadaboutBlogalot ©2009 – 2010)

Quote Freely From The Article – Leave The Pseudonym Alone

Perhaps whipping “boy” is a misnomer, since Wal-Mart is all grown-up and  king of the retail jungle.  Not that organized labor is happy about WallyWorld’s status, but thus far, they have been unable to do anything except attempt to make a villain out of a very successful business model that sold over 400 billion dollars of retail goods during 2009.

Now comes news from Wal-Mart and the New York Times (Stephanie Rosenbloom, February 25th) that they plan to cut  their greenhouse emissions substantially between now and 2015:

… it would cut some 20 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain by the end of 2015 — the equivalent of removing more than 3.8 million cars from the road for a year.

The New York Times article was largely taken from a press release from Wal-Mart.  This is not Wal-Mart’s first venture into helping to “save” the earth from some of the reported effects of anthropogenic actions, but more and more they are teaming up with environmental organizations. Whether this will be good for Wal-Mart remains to be seen and there will still be those detractors, whether organized labor or just garden variety progressives, that will demean the efforts of Wal-Mart and other big boxers, simply because they mean to have a drum in the band.

Here’s a link to the Wal-Mart press release … you be the judge, click.

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