Coldwater Creek listed as EPA top 10 retail green power purchaser
07 Oct '06
2 min read
Coldwater Creek, one of the fastest-growing women's apparel retailers in the United States, announced that it has been added to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's list of Top 10 retail green power purchasers in the Green Power Partnership.
Coldwater Creek is being recognized for its voluntary purchase of 45 million kilowatt-hours of green power to offset 100 percent of its operations' electricity use.
Appearing for its first time, Coldwater Creek ranks No. 6 on the Top 10 Retail list. This Top 10 list highlights retailers within the Green Power Partnership that have completed the largest annual voluntary green power purchases through September 22, 2006.
"Playing our part in protecting the environment has been a very high priority for us since the time the company was founded in 1984," said Dennis Pence, Founder, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Coldwater Creek.
"We're proud that our recent conversion to company-wide use of wind energy to power our headquarters, distribution and customer contact centers and growing base of retail stores resulted in being named as one of the EPA's Top 10 retail green power purchasers."
"Green power" is defined as electricity that is partially or entirely generated from environmentally preferable resources, such as solar, wind, geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydro resources.
Renewable energy sources are cleaner than conventional sources of electricity that produce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a greenhouse gas linked to global climate change. Green power purchases help accelerate the development of new renewable energy capacity nationwide.
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