Share and Voice: Whole Foods Co-op

Whole Foods Co-op

Today my community health class went on a field trip and visited the whole foods co-op here in duluth. We went on a tour of the building and I learned that even the building itself is environmentally friendly! The building is made out of recycled materials. For example the art outside of the building is made from glass and hand rails from a school. The carpeting inside the store is used from recycled tires,and some of the wooden beams on the ceilings are from logs found on the bottom of lake superior. It was really interesting to find out how you can take and reuse materials that you just throw away. The building is even more "green" on the inside. It has bike racks to promote biking, and a shower inside in case you want to walk or jog to work. They also have a solar panel outside and on a sunny day it generates enough energy to keep the registers and other things going for 8 hours!!!! I really enjoyed the tour and learned a lot about organic food and how the store is going green! If you haven't been there go and check it out, its pretty cool:)