We’re Eco-Friendly!
I have no internet at home. It's hell. Anyways…
I'm late on this, but if anyone got a dead tree edition of the ProJo yesterday, go look at the picture on the front page accompanying the Whole Foods story. The article is about how Whole Foods is making a commitment to get 10% of their energy from wind power, and to call attention to that effort they had a single (giant) windmill blade trucked in on a flatbed to display outside the North Main Street store. Well, the truck couldn't navigate the parking lot too well, so it had to roll up on a parking median/island thing, which is when the ProJo photographer snapped the shot. Trouble is, the truck was in the process of running over a tree planted in the median. It was pretty funny: "look how environmentally responsible we are!! Pay no mind to the tree we just butchered so we can install a prop…"
I'm not really picking on Whole Foods, which is by far one of the best companies deserving your dollars (provided you have lots and lots of them and can afford to shop there, of course), it was just ironic.
June 5th, 2004 at 1:15 am
And provided you don’t mind your ridiculous amounts of dollars being spent there are used to fund campaigns to stop workers who want to collectively bargain from being able to do so.
June 5th, 2004 at 12:06 pm
Really? I don’t know why, but I was under the impression that WF was union friendly. Perhaps I assumed their values-led business practices spilled over into the worker side of the equation. Thanks for bringing that up, David.
June 5th, 2004 at 11:24 pm
Is WF really anti-union? Please provide some links of evidence if you could, since I try to avoid anti-union establishments (Walmart and friends). That’s a funny tale about the photo. I’ll have to check that out…
Garris
PS: I just got a mailing from our electric company in RI saying that we can get alternative energy for like 10% more than our usual energy… Whenever big business does something like this, I get suspicious. Anyone know the story?