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In Chapter 5 of 16, environmental management expert Andrew Hutson shares the experience that prompted his corporate sustainability career. Hutson returns to Honduras, where he had worked previously, to assist with Hurricane Mitch recovery efforts. While hiking, he learns about polluted pineapple grove irrigation drainage into the Bonita river. He finds the government turns a blind eye to corporations and asks himself "how do you get a company to change behavior for the better that will have an impact on people's lives?" This starts an academic odyssey that eventually lands Hutson at Wal-Mart providing environmental sustainability leadership on behalf of the Environmental Defense Fund (ww.edf.org).