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Product: Force of Nature: The Unlikely Story of Wal-Mart's Green Revolution
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What happens when a renowned river guide teams up with the CEO of one of the largest and least Earth-friendly corporations in the world? When it's former Wal-Mart CEO H. Lee Scott and white-water expert turned sustainability consultant Jib Ellison, the result is nothing less than a green business revolution.

Wal-Mart—long the target of local businesses, labor advocates, and environmentalists who deplore its outsourced, big-box methods—has embraced an unprecedented green makeover, which is now spreading worldwide. The retail giant that rose from Sam Walton's Ozarks dime store is leveraging the power of 200 million weekly customers to drive waste, toxics, and carbon emissions out of its stores and products. Neither an act of charity nor an empty greenwash, Wal-Mart's green move reflects its river guide's simple, compelling philosophy: that the most sustainable, clean, energy-efficient, and waste-free company will beat its competitors every time. Not just in some distant, utopian future but today.

From energy conservation, recycling, and hybrid trucks to reduced packaging and partnerships with environmentalists it once met only in court, Wal-Mart has used sustainability to boost its bottom line even in a tough economy—belying the age-old claim that going green kills jobs and profits. Now the global apparel business, the American dairy industry, big agriculture, and even Wall Street are following Wal-Mart's lead, along with the 100,000 manufacturers whose products must become more sustainable to remain on Wal-Mart's shelves. Here Pulitzer Prize winner and bestselling author Edward Humes charts the course of this unlikely second industrial revolution, in which corporate titans who once believed profit and planet must be at odds are learning that the best business just may be a force of nature.

Product: The American Way of Eating: Undercover at Walmart, Applebee's, Farm Fields and the Dinner Table
Brand: Scribner
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Product: The Retail Revolution: How Wal-Mart Created a Brave New World of Business
Brand: St. Martins Press-3PL
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Product: Trucking Country: The Road to America's Wal-Mart Economy (Politics and Society in Modern America, 58)
Brand: Princeton University Press
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Product: To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise
Brand: Harvard University Press
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Product: Sam Walton: Made In America
Brand: Bantam
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Product: The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket
Brand: Avery
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Product: Nickel And Dimed: On (Not) Getting By In America
Brand: Picador
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Product: The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--and HowIt's Transforming the American Economy
Brand: Penguin Books
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