Walmart Donates $2M for Food Bank Energy Efficiency

• Date: January 20, 2011
• Source: Admin

Walmart’s charity arm is donating USD 2 million to a dozen plus food banks in the U.S to fund energy-efficiency programs.  The Walmart Foundation is allocating the money to 16 different organizations.  The latter will use the grants to upgrade lighting, refrigeration, heating and air-conditioning.  The improvements effected with the grants are likely to bring down energy use by 5.2 million kilowatt hours a year and save more than USD 625,000 annually, a sum good enough to buy more than 300,000 meals.  

America’s Second Harvest of the Big Bend in Florida, Bay Area Food Bank in Alabama, Feeding America — Kentucky’s Heartland, Feeding South Florida, Food Bank of Central & Eastern North Carolina, Food Bank For New York City, Food Bank of Western New York, Gleaners Community Food Bank in southeast Michigan, Gleaners Food Bank of Indiana, Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank, Huntington Area Food Bank in West Virginia, Los Angeles Regional Food Bank, Oregon Food Bank, Roadrunner Food Bank in New Mexico, Second Harvest Food Bank of Greater New Orleans and Acadiana, and Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina in North Carolina are the recipients of the grant.  The USD 2 million donation is part of a larger commitment made by Walmart Foundation to food banks in May.  Walmart intends to release USD 250,000,000 in grants to food banks along with 1.1 billion pounds of food.  

Promotion of Energy Efficiency

Energy efficiency has become a sensible environmental and business practice. It will reduce greenhouse gas emissions and costs. Thus,
 

• Empire State Building has turned to 100% green power.
• Kaiser Hospital in California's Silicon Valley Taps Solar Power.
• BNY Mellon's Energy Star Data Center Saves Millions in Energy Costs by resorting to relatively basic measures.

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