Wal-Mart joins logging initiative

ft.com     Jul 15, 2008            

By Jonathan Birchall in New York Wal-Mart, the world’s largest retailer, has joined a global programme aimed at eliminating illegal and unsustainable logging in the latest step in a drive to improve its environmental and social record. The retailer said it would work with the Global Forest and Trade Network, an initiative backed by the World... [read full story]                    

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Wal-Mart to ban sales of wood products from threatened rainforests

mongabay.com     Jul 14, 2008          

Wal-Mart, America's biggest retailer, has joined an initiative to conserve the world's most valuable and threatened forests. In an announcement Monday, Wal-Mart said if would participate in the World Wildlife Fund's (WWF)...                    

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Wal-Mart Joins WWF's Global Forest & Trade Network (Business Wire)

yahoo.com     Jul 14, 2008          

Monday July 14, 8:05 am ET Commitment to improve the management of valuable and threatened forests WASHINGTON & BENTONVILLE, Ark.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. joined the Global Forest & Trade Network (GFTN), World...                    

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Wal-Mart joins World Wildlife Fund initiative, plans to phase out illegal wood sources

iht.com     Jul 14, 2008          

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday it will phase out illegal wood sources and increase the products it buys from sustainable forest operations. The world's largest retailer is joining a World Wildlife Fund initiative to improve...                    

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Wal-Mart joins WWF, plans to phase out illegal wood sources

usatoday.com     Jul 14, 2008          

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) said Monday it will phase out illegal wood sources and increase the products it buys from sustainable forest operations. The world's largest retailer is joining a World Wildlife...                    

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Wal-Mart to phase out illegal wood sources

usatoday.com     Jul 14, 2008          

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) — Wal-Mart Stores (WMT) said Monday it will phase out illegal wood sources and increase the products it buys from sustainable forest operations. The world's largest retailer is joining a World Wildlife...                    

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Wal-Mart to phase out illegal wood sources

ibtimes.com     Jul 14, 2008          

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Monday it will phase out illegal wood sources and increase the products it buys from sustainable forest operations. The world's largest retailer is joining a World Wildlife Fund initiative to improve...                    

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Wal-Mart joins WWF in fight against illegal logging

webwire.com     Jul 14, 2008          

Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the world's largest retailer, has strengthened its relationship with WWF by pledging to help save the world's most valuable and threatened forests. - - Earlier this year the Amer... [WebWire - Monday,...                    

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Wal-Mart joins WWF in fight against illegal logging

panda.org     Jul 14, 2008          

© Wal-Mart Stores, Inc." border="0" align="left" hspace="4" vspace="2" />Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., the world’s largest retailer, has strengthened its relationship with WWF by pledging to help save the world’s most valuable and...                    

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Walmart shift to green and ethical gold, silver and wood

alternative-energy-news.info     Jul 14, 2008          

Posted by RobAshwell on July 15th, 2008 A couple of pieces have emerged from that behemoth of retail, Wal-Mart. Over the weekend Reuter’s reported that the store, which also owns Asda in the UK, will be ‘introducing a line of...                    

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Wal-Mart Joins WWF to Combat Illegal Logging

environmentalleader.com     Jul 15, 2008          

Wal-Mart Stores has become a member of the Global Forest & Trade Network, a WWF initiative to combat illegal and unsustainable logging. By becoming a member, Wal-Mart pledges to help save endangered forests by using more wood...                    

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