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...companies would survive to do business with it. By demanding energy efficiency and environmentally friendly practices from its partners--such as reducing packaging waste or selling only sustainable seafood--Wal-Mart could help start a green wave across the U.S. economy, especially among smaller companies that might be less eager or able to change on their own. "When Wal-Mart talks, everyone listens," says Andrew Savitz, an environmental business consultant and the author of The Triple Bottom Line...
...initiatives are more than greenwashing. GE will sell wind turbines, but it will probably sell even more jet engines, contributing to the rising carbon emissions caused by air travel. Wal-Mart pledges to double the efficiency of its vehicle fleet over the next 10 years, but it's also eager to introduce hundreds of millions of Chinese to middle-class consumption, American-style. "I find it hard to look at a Wal-Mart and see anything like a truly sustainable company," says John Elkington, a co-founder of the green-business consultancy SustainAbility...
...There will occasionally be the rough edge here or there, but we’re absolutely eager and prepared to fill in for the next month,” he said...
...wasn't our fault. "Would we have done things differently? Yes, we would have," said U.S. military spokesman Gen. William B. Caldwell in Baghdad. "But that's not our decision. That's an Iraqi government decision." At the White House, the President's men have been all too eager to lie low and let someone else take the fall for the latest mess. "The President is focused on the way forward," the deputy White House press secretary Scott Stanze told reporters. "So these issues are best addressed out of Iraq...
...Senate side of the Capitol building, the ladies in the basement cafeteria had posted up a color printout with pictures of the new Senators so everyone would recognize them if they stopped in for coffee. Upstairs in the halls off the Senate floor, the eager new members - there are nine of them in the Senate, all Democrats - hugged each other, their senior colleagues, family, staff and the occasional bemused passerby...