Reader's Digest Names Whole Foods as "America's 100 Best"
by Kara DiCamillo, Newport, Rhode Island 
on 04.27.06
A few months back we reported that Whole Foods would be going 100% wind powered and because of it they’ve achieved #13 on the Reader’s Digest: America’s 100 Best. “Our special issue celebrates the Best of America- the best toy inventor, movie trailer, math teacher, headline, buzz cut, seaside stroll, street name, cool car, chess player, block party, sandwich, globetrotter, stick artist, view from a dentist’s chair- 100 surprises in all,” the May 2006 issue states. This is great news, not only for Whole Foods, but for the company who they are working with, Renewable Choice. Founded a few years ago, they are now a leading national provider of wind power. Via ::Musings of an Eco-Entreprenuer
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Thanks for the post Kara! I got to spend some time at the Renewable Choice office this week and it was really cool seeing all the Whole Foods customers extending WF's wind buy and singing up themselves.
You can't get much more mainstream than Readers Digest!
:)
It's not all puppies and kittens over there. For info on the down side of WF see http://keepitlocal.org
Local is awesome and I'm glad there are people pushing the idea like you Marshall, but let's remember that the downside of WF is still a hell of a lot better than the upside of almost every other grocery chain in the world.
Keep up the great work!
I just read that Mall*Wart (who is now one of the top grocers in the world) is getting into the real estate biz in the US and in the UK (under the name of the Grocery chain, Asda, which they own.
That scares me more than anything they've been doing lately.
Actually, WalMart already has an immense real estate business in the US. They buy up sites all over the country for stores and distribution centers, and they do a lot of repurposing of old sites when a really big store gets replaced by an even more enormous one.
Whole Foods rocks.
By contrast, Safeway gets 2% of its electricity from renewable sources, according to 2005 in April 2006.
I hope that Safeway will follow the lead of Whole Foods in the near future, but nothing indicates that they will.