Wal-Mart’s Janelle Kearsley on Sustainability
This interview took place at the Sustainable Operations Summit in Monterey, California.
Janelle Kearsley, the Director of Strategy & Sustainability at Wal-Mart is charged with educating and inspiring 1.8 million associates to integrate sustainability into their business operations. This includes Wal-Mart’s executives all the way down to the truck drivers and local buyers for each store.
Kearsley engages suppliers, government officials and organizations in a number of sustainable value networks. These networks gather Wal-Mart’s assorted associates and created dialogue centering around the ideation and application of sustainable business solution.
At the same time, Kearsley monitors several prototype stores that integrate new technologies such as solar panels and energy-efficient lighting in order to apply the more informed sustainability strategies to the rest of Wal-Mart’s existing stores.
Now an NYC refugee, Curtiss P. Martin serves as a contributing editor of all things clean and green at ScribeMedia. When he isn't out on the road or in the field researching and reporting on controversial science and tech topics, Curtiss can be found communing with the creative kids at the Elsewhere artist collaborative in Greensboro, NC.
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