| Green
Mission Project
As
project managers and integral team players, we
have organized, driven, and guided the Green Mission
at Whole Foods Stores. The sustainable business
practices being applied are the fulfillment of
a vision whose time has come. It is the preamble
to an emergent economic system based on ecological
principles.
We
need stewardship of our scarce resources. Some
resources take eons to replenish themselves, and
are non-renewable in our lifetime. We also recognize
the abundance of energy given to us by the sun:
there is no energy shortage. We can supply our
energy needs with current solar, wind, and biomass
technologies.
The
Earth is a system open to solar energy and closed
to matter; life here exists because photosynthesis
occurs and the green cell gives us a source of
economic value. The green cell is a sustainable
resource.
The
grocery business provides a tremendous amount
of food. This food comes from the green cell whether
literally, as vegetables or grain, or as meat
from animals that fed on the grain. In sustainable
ecology there is no waste. What appears as waste
is food for something else. This cyclic principle
rules and is non-negotiable. All of the green
"waste" in a supermarket can feed the
cycle through composting. This compost becomes
topsoil amendment and the cycle continues.
-
Tom Wright
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