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When Timberland, the outdoor clothing company, studied ways to reduce its carbon emissions four years ago, it weighed several options: building a wind farm in the Dominican Republic, buying power generated by renewable resources and setting up a vast bank of solar panels at one of its distribution centers in Ontario, Calif.
It chose to do all those things, but that was the easy part. When Jeffrey B. Swartz, Timberland’s president and chief executive, considered how much carbon dioxide was produced in making leather for the company’s famous boots, the answer came as a surprise.
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