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Whole Foods Market: Green Mission Team Build

Yale is pleased to host Whole Foods Market’s annual Green Mission Team Build meeting. The event will feature multiple speakers from across the food retail sustainability spectrum, and in attendance will be 50+ Whole Foods Green Team members who are eager to learn from and network with the Yale community.
 
All the morning events are open to Yale students, faculty and staff. This is a unique opportunity to be a “fly-on-the-wall” at talks that are designed for the internal Whole Foods Market community to discuss the future direction of the company’s “Green Mission.” In the afternoon, we will open up the discussion to the broader community, with two public talks featuring experts from Yale and Whole Foods.
 
AGENDA
 
9:00-9:30 a.m.
Arrival & breakfast
 
10:00-10:30 a.m.
Welcome, introductions, overview of the day’s agenda
 
10:30-11:15 a.m.
An Overview of Energy Reduction at Whole Foods
Mike Guldenstern, e2s
 
11:30-12:15 p.m.
Water Conservation: Our New Frontier
Steve Mecca, EcoWise Systems
 
12:15-1 p.m.
Complimentary zero landfill lunch, provided by Whole Foods Market
 
1:00-2:00 p.m.          
Sustainability Leaders Speaker Series: Whole Foods Market
Featuring Kathy Loftus, Global Leader of Sustainable Engineering and Energy Management, Whole Foods Market
Moderated by Brad Gentry, Director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment
 
2:00-3:15 p.m.                    
Yale Panel Discussion: Food and Sustainability - Access and Impacts
Moderated by Errol Schweizer,  Senior Global Grocery Coordinator, Whole Foods Market
Panelists: Mark Bomford, Yale Sustainable Food Project; Kelly Brownell, Rudd Center for Food Policy & Obesity; Rafi Taherian, YaleDining Services; Patrick Struebi, Founder, Fairtrasa
 
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