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ThePQ4:

--- Quote from: Slick on 03 May 2008, 18:13 ----come one wallmart, I bet you leave lights on over night

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Well...most wal-marts are open 24 hrs. now, so they kind of have to keep the lights on...and when the store -is- closed, the only lights on are security lights.

I was talking w/ one of my CSMs just yesterday, and he mentioned that our electricity bill at the store is like $2000 a month(!!), but when you factor in the fact that we're open 24 hrs. a day, run 20+ registers for at least 15 of those hrs, and have various powered implements in our deli and hardware sections that need to be run for long periods each day, it kind of makes sense that it's so high. We can't exactly expect people to shop in the dark.

Anyway, it's Corporate Headquarters that makes those kinds of decisions anyway, so my peon-ish managers couldn't really do much in the way of conserving more electricty, even if they wanted (although, I think it would help if dimmed our lights a bit, and shut off lights in the food cases during down-hours, and stuff like that).

I'm sure the electricity bill was much higher before we put in the motion-sensor lighting in our freezers, and turned on the lights in the coke-fridges/machines. At least a little bit of effort has been made, I guess.

Darkbluerabbit:
I was recently told at work that I should stop shutting my computer down when we close.  Apparently, the energy it wastes makes up for precious seconds I lose booting the computer back up when I arrive.  Of course, without rebooting my computer gets slower and slower by the day, which delays everything I do.  God I hate my company. 

MiltonHorton:
I hope the following doesn't come off as self-promotion. I've spent the better part of a year working on an environmental book, 50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth, and the last month setting up a companion web site. To be honest with you, the web site is still a work in progress, but we've got a lot of useful (I hope) information on just what you all are talking about: what makes consumer products sustainable (clothing, food, household cleaners, et al)? And where can you get them? And how can you afford them? And it's all complicated by "greenwash"; industries and advertisers making claims to be "green," which are false or misleading. Plus, even if you're totally committed to changing your ways, exactly how are you supposed to accomplish that? As you noted, when Wal Mart is the best source of sustainable clothing you can find, how do you come to terms with that? Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

Anyway, here is the link to the issue we call the "Green Marketplace": http://www.50simplethings.com/market/index.html. Click on the "view archive" buttons too for more links about the subject.

And if you'd rather skip my site, I recommend the Conscious Consumer Marketplace http://www.newdream.org/consumer/marketplace.php, the Green Guide http://www.thegreenguide.com/, or the National Green Pages http://www.coopamerica.org/pubs/greenpages.

MiltonHorton:

--- Quote from: Darkbluerabbit on 03 May 2008, 20:58 ---I was recently told at work that I should stop shutting my computer down when we close.  Apparently, the energy it wastes makes up for precious seconds I lose booting the computer back up when I arrive.  Of course, without rebooting my computer gets slower and slower by the day, which delays everything I do.  God I hate my company. 

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P.S. This is outrageous! Your company is nuts. Here's an article about how much energy it saves to turn computers off at night. Maybe you can subtly leave it on the desk of someone in charge: http://techlogg.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=367&Itemid=9

Patrick:

--- Quote from: Slick's checklist ----compost check
-turn your wasteful grass lawn partially into vegetables check, we get asstons of oranges and lemons and olives every year
-seriously, grass is a big fucking waste of resources, it's needy and useless check
-and then you could stop buying stuff from mexico all the time? check
-gardening is dead simple. I mean, there is work, but it is not a lot of work after the planting. If your community had a rototiller it'd just be, like, an afternoon or two of labour, then watering/weeding once a week. You can do it! check
-turn down your air conditioning check, turned 'em off 'cause I don't care about the temperature in my house, hot or cold I regulate my heat with clothing.
-convince your company to turn off the goddamned lights at night the McDonald's I worked at/will be working at always turns all the lights off at night
-like, that's a waste of energy. Don't blame the company, be an agent of change. You're part of it I'm aware, lol
-come one wallmart, I bet you leave lights on over night irrelevant in my case
-there ain't no such thing as a free lunch Yeah but it's better than being sent out to go get my own lunch from somewhere else on my 20-minute break. I'd never eat, and I like eating!

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