Earth Equity News

Green-Light Specials, Now at Wal-Mart. By Stephanie Rosenbloom and Michael Barbaro, NYTimes, January 25, 2009. "Wal-Mart's embrace of environmental initiatives has pulled much of corporate America, and consumers, along with it... Today, the roughly 200 million customers who pass through Wal-Mart's doors each year buy fluorescent light bulbs that use up to 75 percent less electricity than incandescent bulbs, concentrated laundry detergent that uses 50 percent less water and prescription drugs that contain 50 percent less packaging... As the saying goes, Wal-Mart has also done well by doing good. Along with the McDonald's Corporation, it was one of only two companies in the Dow Jones industrial average whose share price rose last year."