Leonardo Academy Sustainability Services for Walmart Suppliers

Leonardo Academy provides comprehensive sustainability services:
That help Walmart suppliers address the sustainability issues raised in:

• Initial Walmart sustainability survey questions and
• Follow up sustainability questions sent to suppliers in December 2009

Leonardo Academy: We are the Sustainability Experts® and we can help Walmart suppliers:

• Respond to  Walmart’s sustainability questions to each supplier
• Implement the sustainability actions that will support  a lot of “yes” answers to the questions
• Get ahead of the curve by implementing sustainability actions beyond what Walmart is asking about now.

Leonardo Academy can help your company:

• Energy Use:
  • Inventory energy use
  • Identify and document past and current energy use reduction actions and programs
  • Identify additional energy use reduction actions and programs  
  • Develop energy use reduction strategies and targets
• Greenhouse Gas Emissions & Climate
  • Inventory  greenhouse gas emissions and make results public
  • Report greenhouse gas emissions to the Carbon Disclosure Project
  • Develop a greenhouse gas emission reduction and offset strategy
  • Develop and announce greenhouse gas emission reduction targets
• Material Efficiency: Reducing Solid Waste
  • Inventory  solid waste and set up an ongoing solid waste tracking system
  • Identify and document company  initiatives to recover, re-use, or re-sell byproducts
  • Identify additional source reduction, reuse and recycling options for reducing solid waste
  • Develop and announce practical solid waste reduction actions and targets
• Material Efficiency: Reducing Water Use
  • Inventory water use
  • Set up an ongoing water use tracking system
  • Identify and document company  initiatives to reduce water use
  • Develop strategies for additional water use reductions
  • Develop and announce practical water use reduction targets
• LEED® Sustainable Buildings
  • Develop company policies on implementing LEED actions for its new and existing buildings
  • Carry out LEED gap analysis for your existing buildings
  • Implement LEED-EB and LEED-NC for you buildings
• Employee Commuting Emission Reduction Programs
  • Identify and document actions that have been taken to reduce employee commuting emissions
• Ozone depletion reduction
  • Identify and document any actions taken to reduce or eliminate use of substances that deplete Ozone that merit earning various 3rd party certifications for your products (Kosher, Organic, etc.)
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  • Get on the path to earning 3rd party certifications that are useful for your markets
• Your Supplier’s Sustainability
  • Establish and implement sustainability purchasing guidelines for your direct suppliers
• Other Sustainability Actions
  • Identify and document other sustainability initiatives underway
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  • For more information contact Leonardo Academy:
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