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Natural and organic grocer Whole Foods has announced a new wine cork recycling program at all 292 of its retail stores in the U.S., U.K. and Canada.  Whole Foods Market is partnering with Cork ReHarvest to help collect and recycle some of the 13 billion natural corks that are produced each year.  "We often forget that cork is a renewable, recyclable material that does not belong in landfills," said Erez Klein, wine and beer buyer for Whole Foods Market´s Pacific Northwest Region. "Cork ReHarvest allows us to help sustain cork forests, a critically important resource for our planet, and to do so with near effortless local community action.

Thank you for being part of this important time in the history of the environmental movement, the building industry and our nation’s economic recovery. In March 2000, when the LEED green building rating system was launched, it was with hope that we were about to change the face of the building industry — and, of course, with a little uncertainty about just what we’d be able to achieve. That first year, eight projects registered with LEED and three achieved certification.