http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/news/wal-mart-to-settle-lawsuits-by-going-solar/ A blog about residential solar power, brought to you by CalFinder. Fri, 26 Aug 2011 10:36:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/news/wal-mart-to-settle-lawsuits-by-going-solar/comment-page-1/#comment-34156 Jennifer Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:58:48 +0000 http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/?p=3727#comment-34156 As unappealing as the thought of yet more big box stores that are intrinsically not environmentally friendly is, this is at least a step in the right direction. Walmart is such a big player that it may well end up having a positive influence on other retailers. Eventually, though, I think we'd all be much better off with fewer big box stores, more famers' markets, and the realization that valuing low cost above everything else is a genuinely unsustainable mindset. As unappealing as the thought of yet more big box stores that are intrinsically not environmentally friendly is, this is at least a step in the right direction. Walmart is such a big player that it may well end up having a positive influence on other retailers. Eventually, though, I think we’d all be much better off with fewer big box stores, more famers’ markets, and the realization that valuing low cost above everything else is a genuinely unsustainable mindset.

]]> http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/news/wal-mart-to-settle-lawsuits-by-going-solar/comment-page-1/#comment-34114 russ Fri, 12 Mar 2010 06:42:05 +0000 http://solar.calfinder.com/blog/?p=3727#comment-34114 The green mafia strikes! The green mafia strikes!

]]>