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...climate crisis. Moral suasion of the sort exemplified by frontline activism is needed too, as Gore noted. "It'd be more powerful if he put his body where his mouth is," says Abigail Singer, a Rising Tide activist. In other words, there will always be room on the human chain...
...Chicago's North Side. After arriving from Russia 16 years ago, Chernova regularly shopped at conventional supermarkets like Dominick's and Jewel-Osco, but no more. "They're too expensive," Chernova says, lengthy shopping list in hand. Now she visits Aldi once a week, drawn by the no-frills chain's $2.69 gallon jugs of milk (compared with $3.99 for a gallon of Dean whole milk at Jewel-Osco) and 33¢ boxes of salt (compared with 79¢ for a similarly sized box of Morton's). "I've got to save my pennies," she says, heading into the store...
...brand names like Coke and Betty Crocker have largely been banished for being too pricey. Aldi concentrates on selling core high-volume grocery products like ketchup and coffee. Want a choice in those categories? Forget it. By offering a single brand in a single size, Aldi executives say, the chain can substantially undercut conventional retailers on 90% of the products it sells...
...when the board of postal-machine maker Pitney Bowes decided to analyze risk more systematically, the company listed 16 categories of risk--from supply chain to reputation--and assigned a senior executive to be in charge of each one in an attempt to drive the new ethos into the corporate culture. What was important was that the firm also made a deliberate decision that risk was not something that could be reduced to a number. "We have a much more holistic discussion about a business and why we have it," says vice president and treasurer Helen Shan. "It becomes strategic...
...spotty nature of the enforcement mechanism that is causing the biggest headaches. The discovery last year of melamine in Chinese-made wheat gluten that was used in pet food was a signal that it had permeated other links of the food chain, says Marion Nestle, a public health professor at New York University and author of the recent book "Pet Food Politics: The Chihuahua in the Coal Mine." Once melamine showed up in pet food supplies, Nestle says, it was likely that it would appear in animal feed and eventually human food. "You can't separate the food supplies...