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Fast Company May 2012 Margaret Rhodes	Patagonia Founder Yvon Chouinard's Rules Of Profitable, Earth-Friendly Business Patagonia founder and green-living pioneer Yvon Chouinard, along with colleague Vincent Stanley, penned The Responsible Company, a show-and-tell account of how to run a successful business and be good to planet earth.
Fast Company May 2012 Lindsey Kratochwill	Four Community Initiatives For Urban Food Deserts, When Supermarkets Fail Low-income urban areas are frequently declared "food deserts" -- areas lacking access to supermarkets and nutritious food, requiring intervention from urban planners.
Fast Company May 2012 Lindsey Kratochwill	PlanetSolar Sets Off On A Two-Year Sail, Powered By The Sun "It is not just a boat, it is a message," says expedition leader Raphael Domjan, who wanted to prove the viability of solar energy. More important, he learned some lessons for future explorers.
HBS Working Knowledge April 18, 2012 Maggie Starvish	HBS Cases: Who Controls Water? As the planet's population grows, urbanizes, and is subjected to climate change, many experts foresee a global water crisis (and resulting food shortages and increasing prices) looming over the next 40 years.
Chemistry World April 16, 2012 Anthony King	Voluntary controls on antibiotics on US farms criticized The US Food and Drug Administration has announced new guidelines to curb the use of antibiotics in livestock. But its decision to opt for purely voluntary measures has drawn criticism from many experts.
CFO April 15, 2012 Sarah Johnson	Coverage for Uncovered Secrets New insurance products will compensate companies for the costs of internal investigations.
Chemistry World April 13, 2012 Rebecca Trager	Confusion reigns over EPA green chemistry stance Earlier this month, the EPA suddenly cancelled two grant programs worth a total of $20 million, which would have funded four new green chemistry centers. But just five days later it announced that it would be accepting grant applications this summer after all.
National Defense May 2012 Dan Parsons	Companies Seek Profits In Fee-For-Service Surveillance Aircraft Airborne surveillance has become so popular that even countries that can't afford their own platforms are scrambling to acquire the capability.
National Defense May 2012 Dan Parsons	Commanders Feel Deficiency as Wars Hog Surveillance Platforms The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have proven the efficacy of airborne surveillance as a military tool. The conflicts have also hogged almost all of the U.S. military's manned and unmanned surveillance platforms, to the detriment of combatant commanders elsewhere.
National Defense May 2012 Stew Magnuson	Changes on the Horizon For Special Operations Command as Force Grows No one in the White House or Pentagon is talking about cutting the ranks of special operators. They number about 66,000 personnel now, and the goal to reach 70,000 will not change.
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