Comments on: Are Big Box Stores Advancing or Detracting Sustainability Efforts? Yes. http://www.triplepundit.com/2010/02/are-big-box-stores-advancing-or-detracting-sustainability-efforts-yes/ Business, Better. Since 2005 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 07:33:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Kevin Dooleyhttp://www.triplepundit.com/2010/02/are-big-box-stores-advancing-or-detracting-sustainability-efforts-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-40651 Kevin Dooley Tue, 02 Mar 2010 19:56:28 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=28098#comment-40651 The Sustainability Consortium is working with Best Buy and Walmart and other retailers and manufacturers, and the EPA and other similar agencies in other countries, to develop standardized ways in which consumer goods companies can report on the sustainability of their products, covering environmental and social impacts across the entire product life cycle. By providing retail buyers (merchants) better information about sustainability attributes, this will in turn allow them to make better, greener decisions about what products to carry and provide premium shelf space to. The Sustainability Consortium is working with Best Buy and Walmart and other retailers and manufacturers, and the EPA and other similar agencies in other countries, to develop standardized ways in which consumer goods companies can report on the sustainability of their products, covering environmental and social impacts across the entire product life cycle. By providing retail buyers (merchants) better information about sustainability attributes, this will in turn allow them to make better, greener decisions about what products to carry and provide premium shelf space to.

]]> By: Kevin Dooleyhttp://www.triplepundit.com/2010/02/are-big-box-stores-advancing-or-detracting-sustainability-efforts-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-25448 Kevin Dooley Tue, 02 Mar 2010 11:56:28 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=28098#comment-25448 The Sustainability Consortium is working with Best Buy and Walmart and other retailers and manufacturers, and the EPA and other similar agencies in other countries, to develop standardized ways in which consumer goods companies can report on the sustainability of their products, covering environmental and social impacts across the entire product life cycle. By providing retail buyers (merchants) better information about sustainability attributes, this will in turn allow them to make better, greener decisions about what products to carry and provide premium shelf space to. The Sustainability Consortium is working with Best Buy and Walmart and other retailers and manufacturers, and the EPA and other similar agencies in other countries, to develop standardized ways in which consumer goods companies can report on the sustainability of their products, covering environmental and social impacts across the entire product life cycle. By providing retail buyers (merchants) better information about sustainability attributes, this will in turn allow them to make better, greener decisions about what products to carry and provide premium shelf space to.

]]> By: Lesley LEED APhttp://www.triplepundit.com/2010/02/are-big-box-stores-advancing-or-detracting-sustainability-efforts-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-25331 Lesley LEED AP Sat, 27 Feb 2010 13:35:29 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=28098#comment-25331 You have talked about Home Depot; I wonder what Lowe's is doing to be sustainable. As industries that promote building, it would be sensible for both big box companies to promote green building and sustainability. It would be very smart of them to demonstrate their efforts toward sustainability by practicing it. These big box stores concern me more than the others, but I suppose they all make a difference. You have talked about Home Depot; I wonder what Lowe's is doing to be sustainable. As industries that promote building, it would be sensible for both big box companies to promote green building and sustainability. It would be very smart of them to demonstrate their efforts toward sustainability by practicing it. These big box stores concern me more than the others, but I suppose they all make a difference.

]]> By: mrsunscreenhttp://www.triplepundit.com/2010/02/are-big-box-stores-advancing-or-detracting-sustainability-efforts-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-25313 mrsunscreen Fri, 26 Feb 2010 22:00:45 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=28098#comment-25313 Well done, I enjoyed the read. It is truly a dilemma but at least their doing something, anything. It's better than pure consumption. We are all consumers, we are consuming the earth. So let's try not to consume so much. I'm all for any green initiatives, as we can use all the help we can get.<br>The next generation knows, let do our best to help as it will only get worse.<br>Cheers Well done, I enjoyed the read. It is truly a dilemma but at least their doing something, anything. It's better than pure consumption. We are all consumers, we are consuming the earth. So let's try not to consume so much. I'm all for any green initiatives, as we can use all the help we can get.
The next generation knows, let do our best to help as it will only get worse.
Cheers

]]> By: nickasterhttp://www.triplepundit.com/2010/02/are-big-box-stores-advancing-or-detracting-sustainability-efforts-yes/comment-page-1/#comment-25283 nickaster Fri, 26 Feb 2010 12:39:28 +0000 http://www.triplepundit.com/?p=28098#comment-25283 Awesome article. The big thing missing concerns land-use. Big Box retail is only efficient if gas is cheap and land is undervalued - including the aesthetic value. Vast parking lots with cheap, brightly lit boxes in the middle create a landscape hostile to any form of transportation other than the car, suck life out of established commercial neighborhoods, and are, in general, rather soul-less. That was always my big problem with them. <br><br>I'm excited to see the many, many advances that the big box retailers have made, and even more interested to see some experimentation going on in terms of store design, trying to make bog boxes more integrated into actual neighborhoods, even walkable. Awesome article. The big thing missing concerns land-use. Big Box retail is only efficient if gas is cheap and land is undervalued – including the aesthetic value. Vast parking lots with cheap, brightly lit boxes in the middle create a landscape hostile to any form of transportation other than the car, suck life out of established commercial neighborhoods, and are, in general, rather soul-less. That was always my big problem with them.

I'm excited to see the many, many advances that the big box retailers have made, and even more interested to see some experimentation going on in terms of store design, trying to make bog boxes more integrated into actual neighborhoods, even walkable.

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