Green Greener Greenest
Mirror mirror on the wall who is the greenest of them all? picture from Project Gutenberg via wikimedia Announcements are coming out of the big box stores letting consumers know how green they are. Here are a few of them. Want to pick the winner? From the New York Times ... the nation’s biggest store chains are coming to see their immense, flat roofs as an untapped resource. In recent months, chains including Wal-Mart Stores , Kohl’s , Safeway and Whole Foods Market have installed solar panels on roofs of their stores to generate electricity on a large scale. One reason they are racing is to beat a Dec. 31 deadline to gain tax advantages for these projects. In the coming months, 85 Kohl’s stores will get solar panels; 43 already have them. Macy’s , which has solar panels atop 18 stores, plans to install them on another 40 by the end of this year. Safeway is aiming to put panels atop 23 stores. And other chains, including Whole Foods Market, BJ’s Wholesale Club and REI, the purveyor...