{"id":9,"date":"2009-05-04T15:49:00","date_gmt":"2009-05-04T15:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/blog\/retail-sector-weighs-in-on-sustainability\/"},"modified":"2009-05-04T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2009-05-04T15:49:00","slug":"retail-sector-weighs-in-on-sustainability","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=9","title":{"rendered":"Retail Sector Weighs in on Sustainability"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong style=\"font-weight: normal;\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\">Sustainability Is Here To Stay \u2013 Pun Intended <\/span>so writes L<\/strong><span class=\"small\"><span class=\"blsp-spelling-error\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_0\">eslie<\/span> Hand, Research Director, Global Retail Insights<\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Naysayers will purport that the importance of sustainability will fade, but we disagree. One of our 2009 predictions states &#8220;sustainability and being green will be embedded in the fabric of leading retailer strategies and tactics&#8221;. We are seeing much evidence to support this claim, as retailers are initiating many projects with positive impacts on operating costs and the environment including energy management, recycling, transportation, construction and supplier packaging reduction.<\/p>\n<p>Many retailers are also making consumer facing changes&#8230; Some are going the extra mile to work with product manufacturers to promote products with reduced carbon footprints.<br \/>&#8230; Retail leaders will seize market advantage from participating in a <span class=\"blsp-spelling-corrected\" id=\"SPELLING_ERROR_1\">sustainability<\/span> movement that is far from temporary, and in fact, part of a greater shift towards doing business differently &#8211; more sustainably. &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>The naysayers are converting to becoming earthsayers and you can listen and learn from them on EarthSayers.tv, the voices of sustainability.<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Visit earthsayers.tv and become a sustainability advocate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sustainability Is Here To Stay \u2013 Pun Intended so writes Leslie Hand, Research Director, Global Retail Insights. &#8220;Naysayers will purport that the importance of sustainability will fade, but we disagree. One of our 2009 predictions states &#8220;sustainability and being green will be embedded in the fabric of leading retailer strategies and tactics&#8221;. We are seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-sustainability-events-green-planet-prosperity-brands-branding"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}