Archive for ‘Sustainability’
Website offers behind-the-scenes look at sustainability efforts
In ways large and small, visible and not-so-visible, Hy-Vee is making tremendous strides toward becoming a greener, more environmentally responsible company. Now you can track our progress for yourself on Hy-Vee 360, a new website devoted to sustainability and healthy living. Hy-Vee 360 employs colorful graphics and pop-up windows to show visitors how environmental initiatives are implemented in a typical Hy-Vee [...]
Hy-Vee earns LEED® Gold certification
Just in time for Earth Day! The new Hy-Vee supermarket in Madison, WI has been awarded the prestigious LEED® Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council. This is the first Hy-Vee store to achieve recognition under the LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification system, the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction [...]
Fairfield to be Hy-Vee’s 2nd “green” store
It’s LEED, Round II. Hy-Vee has announced that the new store planned as a replacement for Fairfield will be the company’s second built to LEED certification standards. (Madison, WI, our first LEED project, has been submitted for certification and is under review by the U.S. Green Building Council.) At first glance, this might not seem to be [...]