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Wal-Mart Senior VP Chokes Up Talking Sustainability (Video)

Curveballs aplenty at the special session “Market-based Solutions for Protecting the Environment” at the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative. The panel, which included Matt Kistler, the Senior Vice President of Marketing Wal-Mart, Dr. Sanjayan and the lead scientist for the Nature Conservancy, convened to discuss how business can address issues like water shortages and climate change, and turn a profit in the process. The biggest surprise came at the end of the session, when Kistler teared up discussing the vast scope pursuing sustainability and addressing climate change presents. … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Designers Create a "More Efficient" Chainless Bike

Photo via StringBike The Bike, Unchained A group of designers in Hungary have done away with what has long been a staple of bicycle design , those oily old chains, with their creation, the StringBike . Instead of being propelled forward the traditional way, this novel new bike utilizes a clever symmetrical rope and pulley system that may make cycling safer , smoothe… Read the full story on TreeHugger

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