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		<title>Reflections On Being a Consumer</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Aug 2009 06:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a hotel in Osaka, was reading the Daily Yomiuri this morning. In an article about economic recovery the writer reported on the need for American consumers to start&#8230;consuming more. Japanese consumers seem to be doing their part. Americans are vexing the stock market, though, with their reticence to spend.
This inspired me to mangle William Carlos [...]]]></description>
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		<title>So, How Sustainable is the Wal-Mart Sustainability Index?</title>
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		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[To quote Eric Clapton: &#8220;It&#8217;s in the way that you use it.&#8221;
The Wal-Mart sustainability index is measuring whether suppliers are measuring their impact on energy usage, greenhouse gas emissions, waste, resource depletion and the communities in which they operate. Essentially it&#8217;s binary with annotation. Are you or aren&#8217;t you? If you are, please describe what [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wal-Mart Sustainability Index: An Overview</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Retail giant, Wal-Mart, debuted their Sustainability Index in July. You can download Version 1.0 of the Index here. The latest list of questions on the survey is here.
The survey is divided into four categories: Energy and Climate, Material Efficiency, Natural Resources, People and Community. In essence, it will function as an baseline measurement tool that sorts suppliers [...]]]></description>
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