Every journey begins for a reason. Fifteen years ago, Walmart started on our journey to become a more sustainable company. We set aspirational goals to achieve 100% renewable energy, zero waste and a more sustainable supply chain for people and the planet.
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David Cooperrider & Audrey Selian 's insight:
“USING OUR STRENGTHS TO HELP PEOPLE LIVE BETTER AND PRESERVE THE PLANET”
The World’s largest retailer just announced this month its plan and targets to reach zero emissions by 2040 and aims to protect, manage or restore at least 50 million acres of land and one million square miles of ocean by 2030.
The CEO Doug McMillon states: "We want to play an important role in transforming the world’s supply chains to be regenerative. We face a growing crisis of climate change and nature loss, and we all need to take action with urgency. For 15 years, we have been partnering to do the work and continually raising our sustainability ambitions across climate action, nature, waste and people. The commitments we’re making today not only aim to decarbonize Walmart’s global operations, they also put us on the path to becoming a regenerative company – one that works to restore, renew and replenish in addition to preserving our planet, and encourages others to do the same."
How did this happen? Since 2005, Walmart has been collaborating with others to drive positive change through whole system in the room and Appreciative Inquiry strengths based approaches to change across global supply chains. The book FORCE OF NATURE TELLS THE BACKSTORY OF WALMART'S EARLY JOURNEY
What happens when a Jib Ellison, Dave Sherman, and Chris Laszlo (strategy thinkers) and change champions such as David Cooperrider (author of Appreciative Inquiry and the strengths based whole-system-in-the room AI Summit methods) team up with the CEO and change leaders of one of the largest—and, and at the time, one of the least Earth-friendly--corporations in the world?
"Nothing less than a green business revolution" says author Edward Humes in his book, FORCE OF NATURE: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution.
The journey transformed into a massive sustainability makeover, which now has snowballed beyond the retailer to influence whole industries, from apparel and magazines, to dairy and to banking, electronics, food supplies, textiles, Now their fresh take on sustainability is empowering a virtual second industrial revolution based on a simple truth: that the clean, green, efficient, less-wasteful, less polluting way of doing business can also be the most profitable way of doing business, while helping customers live better and become part of a positive revolution.
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