Comments on: Can Sustainability Come Cheap? Walmart and “The High Cost of Discount Culture” http://blog.kld.com/kld/can-sustainability-come-cheap-walmart-and-%e2%80%9cthe-high-cost-of-discount-culture%e2%80%9d/ The RiskMetrics ESG Insight Blog reports and comments on issues relevant to KLD’s core business of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investment research and indexes. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 21:23:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: KLD BLOG » Speaking Out at Work is a Human Right: Grievance Mechanisms Essential to Safe Workplaces http://blog.kld.com/kld/can-sustainability-come-cheap-walmart-and-%e2%80%9cthe-high-cost-of-discount-culture%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-11142 KLD BLOG » Speaking Out at Work is a Human Right: Grievance Mechanisms Essential to Safe Workplaces Fri, 16 Oct 2009 18:16:18 +0000 http://blog.kld.com/?p=815#comment-11142 [...] The industrial workplace can be a dangerous place, and in some factories, the risks go beyond the pace of the assembly line. This week, China handed down 12 death sentences and nine life sentences to participants in July 2009 violence in the Xinjiang region. This lethal riot, which left approximately 200 people dead, was rooted in long-simmering tensions among Uighur and Han workers in a large toy factory. [...] [...] The industrial workplace can be a dangerous place, and in some factories, the risks go beyond the pace of the assembly line. This week, China handed down 12 death sentences and nine life sentences to participants in July 2009 violence in the Xinjiang region. This lethal riot, which left approximately 200 people dead, was rooted in long-simmering tensions among Uighur and Han workers in a large toy factory. [...]

]]> By: Aleksandra Dobkowski-Joy http://blog.kld.com/kld/can-sustainability-come-cheap-walmart-and-%e2%80%9cthe-high-cost-of-discount-culture%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-10999 Aleksandra Dobkowski-Joy Mon, 10 Aug 2009 11:41:48 +0000 http://blog.kld.com/?p=815#comment-10999 Thank you, Alan, for these insightful, yet sobering thoughts. For many of us, it is hard to get off the treadmill of wanting more "stuff"... whether for pleasure, status, need, or because planned obsolecence still seems to be in force. And that paradigm of more..more..more.. is certainly not sustainable. A fruitful avenue to pursue might be a cultural transition to an experience economy less dependent on the constant consumption (using up) of goods and materials. See: http://frameworkcr.com/the-experience-economy/ for some of our thoughts on this issue. Thank you, Alan, for these insightful, yet sobering thoughts. For many of us, it is hard to get off the treadmill of wanting more “stuff”… whether for pleasure, status, need, or because planned obsolecence still seems to be in force. And that paradigm of more..more..more.. is certainly not sustainable.

A fruitful avenue to pursue might be a cultural transition to an experience economy less dependent on the constant consumption (using up) of goods and materials. See: http://frameworkcr.com/the-experience-economy/ for some of our thoughts on this issue.

]]> By: Philip Spitzer http://blog.kld.com/kld/can-sustainability-come-cheap-walmart-and-%e2%80%9cthe-high-cost-of-discount-culture%e2%80%9d/comment-page-1/#comment-10963 Philip Spitzer Sun, 19 Jul 2009 14:00:40 +0000 http://blog.kld.com/?p=815#comment-10963 Two steps forward One step back The Marxian dialectic A few years back I persuaded all my clients to sell their Walmart stock for their unacceptable practices Now it is time to support them for their efforts No matter how ineffective they may prove they are very publicly making the effort and that Very openness is in itself of significant value and influence Net result: One step forward Two steps forward One step back The Marxian dialectic
A few years back I persuaded all my clients to sell their Walmart
stock for their unacceptable practices
Now it is time to support them for their efforts
No matter how ineffective they may prove they are very publicly making the effort and that
Very openness is in itself of significant value and influence
Net result: One step forward

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