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Why Sustainable Agriculture is Important to Walmart

Photo credit: Walmart This guest post was written by Beth Keck, senior director of sustainability at Walmart. Walmart customers—whether they live in Chicago or Tokyo—want locally grown fresh produce. Yet, while grocery sales make up more than half our business, we haven’t focused enough of our sustainability efforts toward the food we sell. We’ve set dozens of sustainability goals for the company during the past five years, but only four of our 39 public sustainability goals addressed food…A year ago, we realized we … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Why Sustainable Agriculture is Important to Walmart

Public Option Now Blog Weighs Congress’ Progress on Health Care

The Public Option Health Care Now blog, recently founded by yours truly to follow and enhance Congress’ efforts toward health care for everyone in the US, has written a brief and cogent commentary of what right and what’s wrong with the US Congress’ efforts over the last… read more

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