1. WAL-MART

2. Wal-Mart
“These are not complicated questions, but we have never systematically asked for this kind of information before ” Mike Duke

3. TRUCKING Efficiencies
65% improvement fleet efficiency 2010 vs ‘05
Power Units – idling
Truck skirts
Hybrid trucks
+57m cases, 49m less miles
Better load planning
7,600 cars off the road

4. Wal-Mart Kid Connection
Reduced packaging
497 fewer containers per year
$2.4m shipping costs
Straight to bottom line
4,000 trees saved
1,000,000 barrels of oil
$60m sales needed for that much profit
Why didn’t we do this sooner?
$2.4 million straight to the bottom line

5. Wal-Mart CFLs Sell 100 MILLION CFLS in a year!
Save customers $3b in electricity
20 millions metric tons of CO2
Save $40 over life of bulb

6. Wal-Mart Dairy Don’t make the farmers to bad guy
Look at whole supply chain
Grow the crops to feed the cows
Methane from the cows and their manure
On-site power generation
Transport milk to process
Process milk into sour cream
Haul sour cream to Distribution Centers (DCs)

7. Carbon Trust
Measuring and Reducing GHG

8. Wal-Mart 10% of impact is from stores, trucks, etc.
90% of its impact is from the Supply Chain
Fortune 1= 900 lb gorilla
Take the water out of Tide
¼ the packaging, shipping cost, shelf space
95 million lbs plastic resin saved
400 m gallons of water
125 m lbs cardboard
500,000 gallons of diesel = 11m lbs CO2

9. WAL-mart laundry soap 128 facings of Tide brand products
13 facings of Coldwater products = 10% of slots
NW Reno Wal-Mart, Jan. 2012

10. Tesco dropping CARBON TRUST labels

11. Status of wal-mart’s initiative
2005 – 8% of shoppers left, unfavorable views went from 38% down to 20% in 2012.
Require top 200 Chinese suppliers to cut electricity by 20%
It’s still sold 35% more stuff in the US from 2005 to 2011.
Index will NOT account for durability
Carbon footprint per year, assuming it lasts 3 vs 5 years?
Index a Long way off
Why?
Nobody cares about carbon
Because there is no price on it

12. Why worry about carbon?
Carbon = Energy = Money