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We Won a Climate Award!

by Laura Steiger, Outreach Team

April 2018
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Melissa Elkins (center), Co-op Sustainability Coordinator, accepted the Outstanding Company award at the 2018 Climate Collaborative Awards. Also pictured (from left) is Lara Dickinson, Climate Collaborative Co-Founder, and Robynn Shrader, National Co+op Grocers CEO. Photo courtesy of New Hope Network.

We’re all familiar with the tried-and-true award season saying—it’s an honor just to be nominated. Well, sure, that’s true. But it’s even better to have your work recognized by winning!

Melissa is steering the Co-op toward increasingly impressive accomplishments in its sustainability programs

In that spirit, we want to share appreciation for the hard work of Melissa Elkins, the Co-op’s Sustainability Coordinator. Melissa is steering the Co-op toward increasingly impressive accomplishments in its sustainability programs and this award is just the most recent acknowledgement of that work.

The Co-op was awarded “Outstanding Company" for improving energy efficiency in a retail grocery setting and fostering resilient, regenerative farming communities at the inaugural National Co+op Grocers (NCG) Climate Collaborative Awards.

NCG noted the following factors in the Co-op’s award:

  • "offsetting 102% of their electricity use with their own 126 solar panel array and renewable energy certificates
  • diverting 90% of their waste from the landfill
  • investing in efficient lighting and refrigeration systems has earned their co-op the only 2017 EPA EnergyStar Certificate issued to a grocery store west of the Rockies and puts them among the top 30 retailers in the country in utilization of renewable energy.

"If that weren’t enough, they also invest profits back into their community in many ways, including an innovative Farm Fund supporting local sustainable farming projects.”

Congratulations to Melissa and to the entire Co-op staff who work daily to implement innovative sustainability strategies in our co-op. Make every day Earth Day!

Our 2018 Sustainability Snapshot is available online or in print at the service desk. Following are a few highlights!

2018 sustainability snapshot

Waste Reduction Highlights

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Energy Efficiency Highlights

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Keeping it Local

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2% Saturday Community Shopping Day

Shop to benefit Let’s Move! Blaine, our March SEED recipient. Two percent of the Co-op's total sales from this day will be donated. Round up your purchase at the register any day in March to benefit Let’s Move! Blaine.

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2% Saturday Community Shopping Day

Shop to benefit Growing Alliances, our February SEED recipient. Two percent of the Co-op's total sales from this day will be donated. Round up your purchase at the register any day in February to benefit Growing Alliances.

 

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2% Saturday Community Shopping Day

Shop to benefit Whatcom Human Rights Task Force, our January SEED recipient. Two percent of the Co-op's total sales from this day will be donated. Round up your purchase at the register any day in January to benefit WHRTF.

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Community Shopping Day: Whatcom Civil Rights Project

Shop the third Saturday of the month to support Community Shopping Day (CSD) organizations. Two percent of the Co-op's total sales will be donated on this day. Round up your purchases any day during the month to Donate the Difference, and 100% of your donation will directly benefit the CSD of the month.

Representatives from the organization will be in both stores from 1 to 4 pm.

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Community Shopping Day: Bellingham Giving Circle

Shop the third Saturday of the month to support Community Shopping Day (CSD) organizations. Two percent of the Co-op's total sales will be donated on this day. Round up your purchases any day during the month to Donate the Difference, and 100% of your donation will directly benefit the CSD of the month.

Representatives from the organization will be in both stores from 1 to 4 pm.

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Community Shopping Day: Whatcom County Farmland Preservation Fund

Shop the third Saturday of the month to support Community Shopping Day (CSD) organizations. Two percent of the Co-op's total sales will be donated on this day. Round up your purchases any day during the month to Donate the Difference, and 100% of your donation will directly benefit the CSD of the month.

Representatives from the organization will be in both stores from 1 to 4 pm.

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Community Shopping Day: Orca Food Pantry by WCC Foundation

Shop the third Saturday of the month to support Community Shopping Day (CSD) organizations. Two percent of the Co-op's total sales will be donated on this day. Round up your purchases any day during the month to Donate the Difference, and 100% of your donation will directly benefit the CSD of the month.

Representatives from the organization will be in both stores from 1 to 4 pm.

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Community Shopping Day: Recreation Northwest

Shop the third Saturday of the month to support Community Shopping Day (CSD) organizations. Two percent of the Co-op's total sales will be donated on this day. Round up your purchases any day during the month to Donate the Difference, and 100% of your donation will directly benefit the CSD of the month.

Representatives from the organization will be in both stores from 1 to 4 pm.

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Community Shopping Day: YWCA Bellingham

Shop the third Saturday of the month to support Community Shopping Day (CSD) organizations. Two percent of the Co-op's total sales will be donated on this day. Round up your purchases any day during the month to Donate the Difference, and 100% of your donation will directly benefit the CSD of the month.

Representatives from the organization will be in both stores from 1 to 4 pm.

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