Inside Kohl's Green Energy Leadership
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We go through a lot of time at GreenBiz talking about the leaders of corporate sustainability -- the Interfaces , the Nikes , the Kaiser Permanentes , and the Kohls's -- but there remains a gigantic population of companies that aren't as far along their climb up Mt. Sustainability, or don't even skilled in where to begin.
At the GreenBiz Forum this morning in Minneapolis, Tari Emerson, Kohl's chief honcho of energy and capital projects, walked through how the retailer has become the nation's largest corporate solar panel holder, and how other companies can get started.
She started by saying that, at Kohl's like at many companies, dirt about sustainability and energy projects hits the wires, the CEO sees it and a young while later she gets and email asking "how can we do what Company X is doing?"
That, it turns out, is a awkward question. "You just don't start your energy program with a food cell installation or a solar system," Emerson said, even though those are the kinds of projects that do watch over to get media notice. Instead, you have to start small, and Emerson made it her object, during her One Great Idea presentation this morning, to help people surmise from those steps.
Source: GreenBiz.com (blog)