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Whole Foods Completes Largest Renewable Energy Credit Purchase by Any US Retailer

Say what you like about Whole Foods' founder's views on health care, but there's no doubt that the company has its corporate head screwed on straight when it comes to renewable energy. Whole Foods has announced is has just completed its 2009 purchase




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Whole Foods CEO Defends Health Insurance Views, His Right to Speak, in New WSJ Interview

Treehugger has been closely following the saga of Whole Foods CEO and co-founder John Mackey since he published an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal saying, among other things, that "A careful reading of both the Declaration of Independence and the




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John Mackey Steps Down As Chairman of Whole Foods: Did He Jump or Was He Pushed?

On Christmas Eve, John Mackey announced that he is stepping down as Chairman of the Board of Whole Foods.




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Whole Foods' John Mackey a Climate Change Skeptic?!? Seems So.

Back when Whole Foods CEO John Mackey weighed in on-slash-stuck his personal foot in his professional mouth about healthcare, I stayed out of the debate. I assumed, wrongly in hindsight, that most people already knew that




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News from Mother Jones: Help Haiti, Whole Foods' Ungreen Ways, Gross Tap Water

Yesterday, TreeHugger rounded up a few green charities that are helping the recovery effort in Haiti after Tuesday's earthquake. MoJo's human rights reporter Mac McClelland has a few more suggestions for how to help one of the poorest and least




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Whole Foods, Bed Bath & Beyond Say No Way to Alberta Tar Sands

Guest blogger Cara




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Whole Foods Market to Stop Sales of Unsustainable Seafood

An initiative to stop selling red-rated seafood by 2013 had been launched a year early and will go into effect on Earth Day 2012.




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Safeway, Whole Foods Get Greenpeace Green Rating For Seafood Sales

For the first time ever Greenpeace has given a US seafood retailer (in fact two of them) a green rating. There are some notable laggards though.




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Whole Foods becomes 1st national grocer in US to ban plastic straws

In addition to straws, the market is further reducing plastic use across all of its stores in the US, the UK, and Canada.




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Workers from Amazon, Whole Foods, Instacart, Target and Walmart join forces to stage a mass sick-out

Hundreds of essential workers at some of America's biggest companies have called out sick or are planning to walk off the job Friday afternoon.




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David Charvet, 47, braves the open air for Whole Foods grocery run with girlfriend Oksana Rykova, 26

David Charvet has been enjoying a loved up lockdown with his fitness model girlfriendĀ Oksana Rykova, 26.




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Whole Foods Sees Traffic Jump After Price Cuts

Competitors may especially worry about losing higher-income customers.