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Byline: Emily Flynn Vencat (With John Sparks in New York, Karla Adam in London and Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo)
It seems like a hippie entrepreneur's dream come true: an ecostore with cash registers powered by rooftop wind turbines, skylights instead of light bulbs and photovoltaic solar cells on the roof to help power the bakery's oven. It's so environmentally friendly that even the toilet water is collected from raindrops outside. Only this is not some pipe dream of a fringe activist. The vision comes from Tesco, the world's third largest retailer. Tesco is pumping [pounds sterling]100 million into environmental technologies to reduce the amount of energy they use ...