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	<title>The Capacity Evolution Blog &#187; zero waste</title>
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		<title>Consuming Thoughts: Z</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Jan 2010 02:03:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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Z is for Zero, a Target for Waste. Robyn Hitchcock: You&#8217;re just trash&#8230;and you&#8217;re a loser. The only people that prosper (short term) from trash are waste removal companies. Eventually, we all lose. Take packaging: companies waste money and resources through packaging, we waste money to buy it and throw it away. Plastic packaging and waste [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Wal-Mart Sustainability Index: An Overview</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/08/10/the-wal-mart-sustainability-index-an-overview/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 09 Aug 2009 17:18:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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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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		<title>Extreme Eco-conciousness</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/25/extreme-eco-conciousness/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 25 Mar 2009 03:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[leadership]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[reflections]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[the clean bin project]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[trash]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Or, more appropriately, it seems extreme now. The trailer below from The Clean Bin Project site challenges the waste-generating status quo. As it says on their site:
The goal is zero landfill waste. For one year we will not buy any material goods. We will buy only consumables, and everything we buy must come in recyclable [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Six Levels of Sustainability: What You Be is What You Get (5)</title>
		<link>http://ikan.biz/blog/2009/03/05/six-levels-of-sustainability-what-you-be-is-what-you-get-5/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2009 00:12:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Zach Smith</dc:creator>
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&#8220;Sustainability&#8221; is not always sustainable. Simply, doing and describing what you do as sustainable does not make it so. For organizations (and us, personally!) to be sustainable in what we do, we have to be sustainable in who we are and how we see the world. This gives us our best shot at doing something that is actually going to get or generate sustainable results.  In [...]]]></description>
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