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"ref": "2013, Brett Wills, Green Intentions: Creating a Green Value Stream to Compete, page 2011",
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"ref": "2010, Matt Labash, Fly Fishing with Darth Vader: And Other Adventures with Evangelical Wrestlers, Political Hitmen, and Jewish Cowboys, page 275",
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