Photo: Mac Wyckoff
From Green Right Now Reports
The Wal-Mart blow back has begun.
A day after the world’s largest retailer announced a plan to develop a worldwide sustainable product index, a Virginia group blasted the company for its plans to build a store on more than 50 acres of historic woodlands at the Civil War-era Wilderness Battlefield in Orange County, Va.
“Perhaps we should call this the Wal-Mart Paradox,” Jim Campi of the Civil War Preservation Trust, said in a statement. “On one hand, they are launching a big, splashy, public relations campaign touting how ‘green’ they want to be. Yet, on the other hand, they continue to move behind the scenes to destroy irreplaceable, historic land, which still retains its scenic beauty.”
