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- Wal-Mart Moves Toward Helping Save Our Environment
- An Indiana Farming Town Tries for All-Renewable Energy
Wal-Mart Moves Toward Helping Save Our Environment
Wal-Mart is experimenting with becoming more environmentally friendly. In Aurora, Colorado they recycled 500 tons of concrete from the Denver Stapleton Airport’s runway and used it as a store’s foundation. Wal-Mart is also using the used motor oil and the vegetable oil from the kitchen to heat their building. Wal-Mart states that they are working towards making energy efficient buildings, and that they are committed to building a new prototype facility that will be about 30% more efficient and produce 30% less greenhouse gas emissions. They want to reduce the amount of raw materials used to construct the facilities, and substitute renewable materials. www.walmartfacts.com/articles/1868.aspx
- Information by Wal-Mart “Wal-Mart Opens 2nd Experimental Supercenter
An Indiana Farming Town Tries for All-Renewable Energy
The farmers of Reynolds, Indiana are working on a project generating their own electricity and gas using farm waste, hog manure, and even town sewage. If this experiment works the 500 residents of Reynolds will be the nation’s first community to use renewable resources to provide power for all the needs of their homes and businesses. By November they will start work on the privately funded center that will house the equipment needed to turn the biomass into energy. If this project is a success they plan to upgrade the system so it can also produce natural gas. Reynolds has been given the name Biotown USA. Researchers say the project will lower the utility costs for the town and help the environment. For more information visit www.biotownusa.com
- Information provided in The Clarion-Ledger by the Associated Press
