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Whole Foods uses green tickets to purchase wind energy

From Dec 2008 | By D. Gail Fleenor | Tags: Sustainability, Wind Power
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Whole Foods uses green tickets to purchase wind energy

The source of Whole Foods Market’s electricity is, with apologies to Bob Dylan, blowin’ in the wind. The Austin, Texas-based grocer was the first Fortune 500 company to buy wind-generated power to cover 100 percent of its purchased electricity use across all U.S. operations. Highlighting wind power and its benefits has become standard operating procedure at this grocery chain.

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