Eco-Bag It Consistency Counts
Wal-Mart Aims to Cut Plastic Bag Use by a Third Workers Still Greener at Home
Wal-Mart is extending its waste-reducing initiative to
than on the Job
cash registers, with a goal of eliminating one in three Across the
plastic bags in the next five years. That should cut 135
country,
million pounds of plastic waste and associated petro-
employers are
leum use in their manufacture. The Environmental De-
scrambling to
fense Fund will consult with the retail giant to design
send an impor-
the program and measure and assess its success.
tant message to
The goal is to make reusable tote bags the norm. The trick is to carry a few in
workers, cus-
the car and remember to use them, rather than let unused totes pile up at home in
the closet.
tomers, vendors
and the public:
Green matters.
Primal Resonance
Part of that is
a response to a bottom-up push. In a
Scientists Listen to Trees to Save Forests
2008 survey by Randstad and Harris
New discoveries could help reduce forest fires and prevent bug
Interactive, 87 percent of employees af-
infestations, based on two scientific studies about how trees
firm it is at least “somewhat important”
function.
that their employers offer green-friendly
In one, researchers are listening to the ultrasonic com-
plaints of drought-stricken, beetle-infested piñon pines. They
programs at work.
hypothesize that the beetles find vulnerable trees by detecting
People want to work for compa-
these sounds. The beetles also emit ultrasounds to communicate
nies that have strong values and care
among themselves, which may attract more bugs to a tree under attack. Dr. James
about sustainability. They also want to
Crutchfield, from the University of California at Davis, who is collaborating with the
work for companies that solicit their
Art and Science Laboratory in Santa Fe, says that if the theory proves true, it may be green ideas.
possible to use ultrasound to confuse and divert the beetles and protect the trees. Still, while 93 percent of employed
The other study has solved the mystery of how trees produce low-level elec-
respondents turn off electrical devices
trical power. This opens the way to using trees’ own electricity to power networks
at home to conserve energy, only 50
of sensors for early fire detection, even in remote regions. Shuguang Zhang, at
percent do so at work. And while 77
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, announced the finding in PLoS ONE, a
percent of employees recycle at home,
Public Library of Science online journal. His research team notes that trees gener-
only 49 percent do so on the job. To-
ate electricity from an imbalance in the acidity between a tree and the soil; it’s the
same principle students use to generate a charge using a lemon or potato at high
gether, we can do better.
school science fairs.
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