Despite my friend’s objections to my having given Walmart props for their recent decision to help combat obesity, I stand by my commitment to celebrate the efforts big businesses make to alter their traditionally harmful practices whenever I come across them. An experiment in positive reinforcement, if you will.
And so, I’ve started a new recurring series of posts — Celebrating Eco-Progress — for this very purpose.
Today, a big hats off to the convenience store giant, 7-Eleven, for their latest effort towards sustainability.
Via Inhabitat:
With their excessive fluorescent lights and gigantic energy-sucking coolers, convenience stores are at the bottom of the green building totem poll. But 7-Eleven Japan found success with an eco-friendly store prototype that they will now officially open in 100 different locations by the end of the month. The green stores use LED lighting, solar-powered electricity, and reflective flooring to reduce the need for harsh overhead lights…
7-Eleven stores around the world have begun implementing greener practices. About 5,000 stores in Taiwan operate as eco-konbinis, and stores in Malaysia, the Philippines and Hong Kong are testing LEDs. In 2009, the first green 7-Eleven in the U.S. opened in Florida…
A solar energy specialist told the New York Times that retrofitting just 100 7-Eleven stores is the equivalent of taking 600 cars off the road.
Fish & Bicycles 
“eco-konbinis”? i was hoping to see photos of women in recycled swimwear.
no, huh?
I know, very disappointing.
Who says sustainability can’t be sexy?
I’m celebrating with a big gulp once the temperature rises above freezing.
Rainy with a high of 46 here In Bellingham today.
Sorry, brutha. Hang in there. The Big Gulp is on me.