The semi-finals and finals of Wal-mart’s Better Living Business Plan Challenge are today and tomorrow in Bentonville, Arkansas. The competition focuses on coming up with environmentally-friendly solutions. It is organized in coordination with Net Impact (an international nonprofit organization with a mission to inspire, educate, and equip individuals to use the power of business to create a more socially and environmentally sustainable world), which has a chapter at Carlson.

Here is Net Impact’s description of the competition:

The competition challenges students to invent sustainable products or develop sustainable business solutions and present them to a panel of Walmart executives, suppliers, and environmental organizations. In addition to gaining an audience with some of the top business and sustainability leaders in the United States, the winning team will receive $20,000 to invest in their business or product.

For more information, see below:

http://www.netimpact.org/displaycommon.cfm?an=1&subarticlenbr=3165