Whole Foods Market

For over 40 years, Whole Foods Market has striven to offer the highest quality natural and organic foods, while enhancing the experiences of customers and staff and improving local and global communities and the environment. Whole Foods Market’s commitment to the environment is embraced as a Core Value. Its dedication to a thriving, healthy planet is part of a long employed stakeholder approach that places the business within a system of exchanges with myriad interdependencies. Whole Foods Market embraces its responsibility to co-create a world where individuals, communities, and the planet can flourish.

As a Better Buildings Challenge Partner, Whole Foods Market will employ sub-metering and monitoring tools to measure, analyze, and publicly share the performance of newly designed and replicated energy efficiency and climate protection initiatives in new and retrofitted stores. The company will work with manufacturers, trade allies, industry peers, the Department of Energy, the Environmental Protection Agency and other organizations to further its energy efficiency goals. For example, Whole Foods Market has participated in the Department of Energy’s Better Building Alliance’s Advanced Rooftop Unit Campaign, and hopes to continue transforming supermarket building energy systems nationally.

Solutions at a Glance

Whole Foods: Alternative Refrigerants and Energy Efficient HVAC Systems

Solutions at a Glance

Stewardship Certification Program Brings Sustainability to Grocery Stores

Webinar

Back by Popular Demand: The Best of the 2019 Better Buildings & Better Plants Summit

Presentation

Buildings of the Future: Commercial Partner Strategies for Building Resilience

Video

Shout it from the Mountaintops!: Working with Your Communications Team to Tell Your Energy Efficiency Success Story

Implementation Model

Whole Foods Market: Making the Case for Rapid Solar Roll-Out

Webinar

Shout it from the Mountaintops!: Working with Your Communications Team to Tell Your Energy Efficiency Success Story

Presentation

From Numbers to Actions Using EMIS to Detect Problems and Solve Them: Data Driven Decision Making

Presentation

From Numbers to Actions Using EMIS to Detect Problems and Solve Them: Data Driven Decision Making

Presentation

Cleanup on Energy Savings on Aisle 7! Saving Energy in Supermarket Design and Operation

Presentation

Cleanup on Energy Savings on Aisle 7! Saving Energy in Supermarket Design and Operation

Video

Night Walks: A Valuable Energy Audit Component

Video

Whole Foods Market Cooling Tower

Video

Team Member Engagement and Energy Efficiency

Video

Leadership

Video

Tracking and Measurement

Video

Outtakes

Video

Opener

Webinar

Making Utility Efficiency Funds Work For You

Video

Making Utility Efficiency Funds Work For You

Showcase Project

Whole Foods Market: Brooklyn Third and 3rd

Implementation Model

Whole Foods Market: Customized Utility Incentives for Grocery Sector

Performance Data

Solutions

Leadership Commitments

Better Buildings Challenge

Goal

Commitment

Progress

DOE Program Participation