Thanks to our contest partner, Earth’s Best, we have 16 prizes to award:

Grand Prize: a $500 Whole Foods Market Gift Card and a Canon EOS Rebel T1i camera

Five First Prizes: Mom and Baby Gift Baskets

Ten Second Prizes: $25 Whole Foods Market Gift Cards

Here’s just a sample of the amazing cuteness you’ll find on our Facebook page:

Help us determine who will win! Vote daily through March 25th.

Thanks to our contest partner, Earth’s Best, we have 16 prizes to award:

Grand Prize: a $500 Whole Foods Market Gift Card and a Canon EOS Rebel T1i camera

Five First Prizes: Will receive Mom and Baby Gift Baskets filled with products from:

• Earth’s Best
• Traditional Medicinals
• EcoNatura
• Alaffia
• Whole Foods Market (365 Everyday Value®)

Ten Second Prizes: $25 Whole Foods Market Gift Cards

Help us determine who will win! Vote daily through March 25^th.

Don’t have a baby? Don’t feel left out! You’ll be able to vote for the winners. Who doesn’t like looking at cute pictures of babies eating? From March 18^th – 25^th, our Facebook fans will be able to vote on 16 finalists to help us choose the winner. You’ll be able to vote once a day.

Thanks to our contest partner, Earth’s Best, we have 16 prizes to award:

Grand Prize: a $500 Whole Foods Market Gift Card and a Canon EOS Rebel T1i camera

Five First Prizes: Will receive Mom and Baby Gift Baskets filled with products from:

• Earth’s Best
• Traditional Medicinals
• EcoNatura
• Alaffia
• Whole Foods Market (365 Everyday Value®)

Ten Second Prizes: $25 Whole Foods Market Gift Cards

Visit The First Yum on our website or Facebook to find out all the details. Good luck!

From March 2 through March 16, go to “The First Yum” tab on our Facebook page and upload a photo of your baby enjoying his or her favorite food. You’ll find all the rules on the Contest Page, but a few to note: the baby in the photo must be your baby, and your baby must be under 12 months of age when you submit the picture to the contest.

Don’t have a baby? Don’t feel left out! You’ll be able to vote for the winners. Who doesn’t like looking at cute pictures of babies eating? From March 18^th – 25^th, our Facebook fans will be able to vote on 16 finalists to help us choose the winner. You’ll be able to vote once a day.

Thanks to our contest partner, Earth’s Best, we have 16 prizes to award:

Grand Prize: a $500 Whole Foods Market Gift Card and a Canon EOS Rebel T1i camera

Five First Prizes: Will receive Mom and Baby Gift Baskets filled with products from:

• Earth’s Best
• Traditional Medicinals
• EcoNatura
• Alaffia
• Whole Foods Market (365 Everyday Value®)

Ten Second Prizes: $25 Whole Foods Market Gift Cards

Visit The First Yum on our website or Facebook to find out all the details. Good luck!

Green building is a top priority for us and with SouthGlenn, we were very pleased to contribute to the redevelopment of an existing center to bring commerce back into the neighborhood without sacrificing any green space. With energy efficient systems and a healthy indoor space, our new store earned a “Green Globe” award. Green Globes® is an online rating and on-site assessment system for eco-friendly design and operating functions that’s a good fit with our vision of sustainability.

While shopping the store and cruising the back hallways, you’ll see high efficiency refrigerators, walk-ins and coolers that maximize energy usage as well as conscious lighting choices like solar tracking skylights. By installing 40 skylights, we are able to track the sun’s position in the sky to maximize the amount of daylight harvesting that takes place and cut back on lighting needs around the store. We are really excited that 80% of our retail space is naturally lit from daylight penetration!

In terms of energy, we have reduced our consumption by 9% or 200,000 kilowatt-hours of electric energy when compared to a typical food sales establishment of similar size. We made it happen through:

• Heat reclaimed from refrigerated cases, which reduced electric energy consumption by 100 gallons per hour, equaling 110,000 kilowatt-hours of electric energy saved
• Many closed door cases to increase refrigeration efficiency and night curtains on open cases



• High efficiency ECM fan motors in the cases and Walk-ins; variable speed condenser fan control; oversized condensers and no CFC refrigeration
• Computer controls interconnected with lighting, refrigeration and HVAC for energy management
• Efficient lighting at only 1.2 watts per square foot which reduced electric power demand by 17.4 kilowatts below standard. This also reduces the annual electric energy use by approximately 89,000 kilowatt hours!
• Solar tracking skylights
• LED lighting in all door cases

The use of durable and long-lasting materials such as concrete and tile also ensure that we were mindful of our environment in our purchasing decisions. Other sustainable materials used include: skyblend, MDF, aluminum, reclaimed barnwood, steel and 3-form. In all restrooms, high-speed hand dryers were installed to eliminate waste from paper towels and reduce energy consumption by up to 80%. Automatic water faucets ensure that water turns off as soon as it is no longer needed, and all of the urinals are waterless also, saving thousands of gallons of water every month.

Other sustainable initiatives adopted by SouthGlenn include supporting local producers to reduce “food miles” by offering over 1,200 locally-made products, stocking an extensive bulk aisle to reduce packing and increase value, and conserving resources with an extensive recycling and composting center. Outside of the store, multiple bike racks welcome riders, while four car plug-ins at the front of the store celebrate those who drive electric cars. If you live in the area, we hope you’ll check out the new store and see how cool it is, or check it out online and let us know what you think.

Lauren Evans started with Whole Foods Market six years ago in the Prepared Foods department at the Sixth Street store in Austin. She helped open our Austin Lamar store and then moved to Colorado to open Tamarac and Belmar as a Prepared Foods supervisor. Lauren started her marketing stint at the Pearl Street store in Boulder, later transitioning into a regional role as an Associate Marketing Coordinator.