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Recently, we’ve seen lots of news about big companies such as Whole Foods<\/a> and Fed-Ex Kinko’s<\/a> greening their energy use with renewable energy credits; the big corporations aren’t the only ones getting in on this game, though. From the Richmond Times-Dispatch comes news<\/a> of Ellwood Thompson’s Natural Market<\/a>, a Richmond-area business that is joining a handful of other Virginia businesses in buying 100% green power:<\/p>\n

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“We’re making a big statement about the environment by doing this,” said [Richard T.] Hood, the store’s owner.<\/p>\n

Ellwood Thompson’s becomes the first Richmond-area business — and one of seven companies or local governments in Virginia — to buy the renewable energy credits, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Power Partnership<\/a>. Most renewable energy comes from the wind or sun.<\/p>\n

“It is something that other companies will probably emulate,” said Blaine Collison, a director of the EPA program involving the agency and organizations favoring renewable power. …<\/p>\n

The energy credits bought by Ellwood Thompson’s would reduce carbon dioxide pollution by 1.4 million pounds annually, [Quayle Hodek of Renewable Choice Energy<\/a>] said. That would be the equivalent of taking 128 cars off the road for a year.<\/p>\n

“We have been involved in environmental efforts for a while,” Hood said. “We decided to take that effort another step. The environment is a constituent of ours.”<\/p>\n

If more companies would buy energy credits, Hood said, it would help develop wind power and make it more affordable.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Exactly! BTW, Quayle Hodek is the good buddy\/business partner of our good friend Shea Gunther<\/a> — congrats on another, if smaller, sale!<\/p>\n

Categories: greentags<\/a>, windpower<\/a>, renewable<\/a>, energy<\/a>, business<\/a>, Virginia<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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