Video - Walmart Fails to Pay a Living Wage

Despite Walmart's efforts to be a sustainability leader they fail to provide provide a living wage to their workers. As illustrated in this video the situation is so bad that employees are being asked to donate food to help feed their colleagues in Ohio, The fact that Walmart does not pay their employees enough for them to sustain themselves means they fail on at least one of the three pillars of sustainability. The situation is so bad that a petition is being circulated calling on Walmart to stop relying on other people's generosity to support its low-road business model.

Sustainable University IdeaLab Workshop for College Students

The National Collegiate Inventors and Innovators Alliance and Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT) are hosting the Sustainable University IdeaLab workshop Jan. 4-8. The large-scale operations of university campuses make for large ecological footprints. But their students are also a great resource of potential problem solvers.