Sustainable
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Tom Wright
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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

Whole Foods Green Mission (www.wholefoods.com)

"We believe companies, like individuals, must assume their share of responsibility as tenants of Planet Earth. On a global basis we actively support organic farming—the best method for promoting sustainable agriculture and protecting the environment and the farm workers. On a local basis, we are actively involved in our communities by supporting food banks, sponsoring neighborhood events, compensating our team members for community service work, and contributing at least five percent of total net profits to not-for-profit organizations. "

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