GREEN WAL-MART
July 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEUS retail giant Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has opened an environment-friendly prototype superstore in Texas that relies on "green" technology, in an experiment in resource and energy conservation. The branch, in a Dallas suburb, sports a 120-foot tall wind turbine producing about 5% of the store's energy and a rainwater-harvesting pond designed to provide 95% of the water needed for landscaping.Also fitted are electricity-generating photovoltaic cells in the skylights. All in all, the store will get about 8% of its energy from solar and wind power, ...
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