Wal-Mart telegraphs its clean-tech needs
Posted on February 26th, 2008 in Uncategorized |
For many new green-tech ventures, Wal-Mart is the ideal customer, sitting on top of the economic food chain of environmentally friendly products.
On Tuesday Wal-Mart and the Cleantech Group launched a Web-based tool that provides a sort of shopping list for Wal-Mart’s sustainability strategy. The Cleantech Group is hosting its Cleantech Venture Forum in San Francisco, which starts on Tuesday.
Which “innovative ideas” Wal-Mart is seeking is instructive because it points to large corporate demand for clean-tech products.
The list: