This document summarizes a chapter on Walmart's sustainability efforts. It outlines that Walmart is the largest retailer in the world with over 10,900 stores in 27 countries and 2.2 million employees. The chapter discusses Walmart's initiatives to increase renewable energy production and implement more efficient transportation routes to reduce its environmental impact. It also covers Walmart's commitments to sustainable sourcing and reducing greenhouse gas emissions from its supply chain. The chapter examines Walmart's leadership in pushing suppliers to adopt more environmentally responsible practices.

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Juliana Acosta
Melanie Bauer
Eryn Eledge
Jose Mendoza
Erik Sharp

2. Agenda
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Background
Facts on Wal-Mart
Chapter 2 and the environment
Chapter 4 and the green movement
Mini quiz
Chapter 11 and leadership
Recap and questions

3. Background

4. Facts
• # 1 retailer (WORLD OR NATION?)
• 10,900 retail units
• 27 different countries
• 2.2 million employees
• 1.3 million employees in the U.S.

5. Chapter 2 and The Environment
• 1) Top three on EPA’s Green
Power Partnership
• 1) Implementing a number
of green energy projects
• 2) Zero waste policy and
renewable energy
• 2) New marketing strategy
about going green

6. Energy Production
• 3) “Americans live the least
sustainable, most wasteful
lives on the planet,
consuming 25 percent of the
world’s energy and
producing 25 percent of its
waste with less than 5
percent of its population.”
(pg 93)
• 4) Harnessing solar power
• 4) More than 180 renewable
energy projects in operation

7. • 5) Implementation of
distribution hubs
• 5) New and improved truck
routes
• 3) “Since 2005, when the WalMart trucking fleet has
increased its efficiency by 60
percent. The goal set by the
transportation network is a
100 percent increase by 2015.”
(pg 141)

8. • 5) The external environment
and Walmart
• 5) Sociocultural and assessing
the surrounding area

9. Walmart Comercial

10. Chapter 4: The Green Movement
• 1) Committed to CSR
• 1) Walmart and its suppliers
• 2) Responsibiltiy and ethics
(pg 121)
• 3) “In 2010, it announced a
project to remove 20 million
metric tons of greenhouse gas
emissions from its supply
chain--the equivalent of taking
3.8 million cars off the raod
for a year.” (pg 229-230)

11. Recycling
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4) The three R‟s
4) Reusable Bags
5) Graph on pg 149
Sustainability

12. Mini Quiz
• Is it fine to choose the cheaper but harmful way
than being responsive for the environment and
finding new way which may cost more. → “it is
legal but is it also ethical” question
• Question 2
• Question 3

13. Chapter 11 and Leadership
• 2) Leadership is the ability to
influence people toward the
attainment of organizationals
goals
• 1) Good management leads to
the future

14. • 3) leader‟s mentioned on pg
235
• 3) “[Team members from
Conservation International]
suggested Wal-Mart, which
buys $750 million worth of
seafood a year (wholesale),
should use its market
leadership to help stabilize and
then restore dyinf ocean
fisheries, and practices that
are leading to extinctions, and
push for international
agreements for wise
management of the global
„ocean commons.‟” (pg 135)

15. • 5) pg 446 graph and connect
to walmart

17. Sources