Newsweek Ratings

Newsweek released a list of the "greenest" companies. Here's some of the highlights:

#1: HP
#10: Starbucks
#59: Walmart
#67: Whole Foods

Huh. I think it's odd that Walmart is scoring higher than Whole Foods. Even more interesting is that the reputation score (which is 10% of the overall score) is 100 for Walmart and only 50.41 for Whole Foods. What is this score based on? Advertising? It has to be.

Granted, Walmart has made great strides in reducing ts impact, but geez.

Starbucks is #10? With a score of 91.63 overall and 82.01 on green policies. How about all those cups? With the plastic tops? How about all the stuff in plastic bottles that they sell in the stores and then the store has nowhere to recycle the bottle? Hmmm?

How about the Starbucks near us that throws away all their pastries at the end of the day?

True, they do offer hormone-free milk now, but.... #10? Wow.

This list is bizarre and doesn't seem to really mean anything. I guess that it might encourage some companies to make changes so that they can move up in the lists, but maybe they just need to make people *think* that they are a green company, improving their reputation score, rather than actually make hard core green choices.