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Corporation Tops List for First Time: This week the EPA released its list of the top buyers of clean, green power in the United States. Here it is:

EPA's Top 25 Green Power Partners, listed in order of purchase size (organizations that get 100 percent of their electricity from green power are in bold)

1. Wells Fargo & Company
2. Whole Foods Market
3. U.S. Air Force
4. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
5. Johnson & Johnson
6. Starbucks
7. DuPont Company
8. U.S. Department of Energy
9. Vail Resorts Inc.
10. HSBC North America
11. Cisco Systems Inc.
12. Staples
13. New York University
14. The World Bank Group
15. University of Pennsylvania
16. IBM Corporation
17. Carbonfund.org
18. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
19. NatureWorks LLC
20. Sprint Nextel
21. Safeway Inc.
22. Pennsylvania State University
23. Kohl's Department Stores
24. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
25. The Tower Companies

The most prevalent green power source tapped by these Top 25 is wind, followed by biomass and then geothermal, small-hydro, solar, and biogas. The U.S. Department of Energy only gets 3 percent of its power from green sources, which tells you something about our country. You can look at all of the numbers and details here, http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/partners/top25.htm.

Does your organization buy green power? If you want to join the EPA's Green Power Partnership, check out this site, http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/join/howto.htm. 

Do you buy green power at home? If you'd like to, check out this Green Power locator map from the EPA.

Post your thoughts here about what you think of this list.  Are you surprised by which companies and organizations are on it?

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• #1 Comment from jessguessnrandy 
  2/7/07 12:05 AM | Permalink

  It surprises me that a lot of these companies would even hide under the pretense of anything with the word 'green' in it.  Yeah, that is great that the corporate dictators of the world have switched their bulbs to compact flourescents and have all decided to bank a couple bucks extra by having someone sort out their recyclables from the waste piles.  Since when have we decided to reward the villain, moreover paying him to rob from our own moth-eaten pockets, fueling the fire?  I am sorry to come off so rude but honestly, am I the only person out there who feels that these are some of the very same companies who promoted our travels into our own demise?  If they did not start the whole evil empire then surely they would be considered the LARGEST SINGLE CONTRIBUTERS to the accelerated process.  If anyone had the money and ability to had set back the clock when that was still an option, it would be these guys, not me u n peggy sue. Shooot, for every step forward that people like me gain, they are the ones hauling us two steps back.  They want me to be impressed.  Earn it.  Shut down the smoke stacks right now and find the better alternative.  Do it, please.