REI's first annual Sustainability Report

Actions have results. I have been working on an "action learning project" team at BGI where we are helping REI initiate some reductions in their corporate waste stream. We started the project in October, and it will run through June. During Nov-Jan, we designed and implemented a survey to measure the total waste from REI's retail stores (both trash and recycling).

The company just published its first annual Sustainability Report, and they used our data. BGI is even mentioned in the report (on this page:http://www.rei.com/aboutrei/csr/2006/sustain_waste.html).

It feels satisfying to have contributed to something concrete, even just in the form of data collection. I can attest that REI is serious, not just greenwashing.