[SustainableTompkins] Mind Your Business: Advice from sustainability leaders for aspiring entrepreneurs

[Tony Del Plato]

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 [image: Mind Your Business]   *Tuesday, 29 Aug 2006*
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 *Plastics, Take
Two*<http://www.grist.org/biz/fd/2006/08/29/plastics/index.html?source=biz>
 *Advice from sustainability leaders for today's aspiring
entrepreneurs*<http://www.grist.org/biz/fd/2006/08/29/plastics/index.html?source=biz>

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As
summer winds down and fall looms on the horizon, it's time for some of you
bright young things to go back to school. To inspire and motivate the
aspiring environmental entrepreneurs in the bunch, John Elkington and Mark
Lee surveyed sustainability experts, asking: What's the 21st-century version
of the famous "plastics" advice from The Graduate? Find out today in the
latest Full Disclosure column.

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