Coldwater Creek Listed as EPA Top 10 Retail Green Power Purchaser
05 Octobre 2006 - 9:30PM
PR Newswire (US)
Company's Conversion to Wind Power Also Results in Being Named to
Green Power Leadership Club SANDPOINT, Idaho, Oct. 5
/PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Coldwater Creek, one of the
fastest-growing women's apparel retailers in the United States,
today announced that it has been added to the U.S. Environmental
Protection Agency's list of Top 10 retail green power purchasers in
the Green Power Partnership. Coldwater Creek is being recognized
for its voluntary purchase of 45 million kilowatt-hours of green
power to offset 100 percent of its operations' electricity use.
Appearing for its first time, Coldwater Creek ranks No. 6 on the
Top 10 Retail list. This Top 10 list highlights retailers within
the Green Power Partnership that have completed the largest annual
voluntary green power purchases through September 22, 2006. This
and other Top Partner lists are available at
http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/partners/top10retail.htm . "Playing
our part in protecting the environment has been a very high
priority for us since the time the company was founded in 1984,"
said Dennis Pence, founder, chairman and chief executive officer
for Coldwater Creek. "We're proud that our recent conversion to
company-wide use of wind energy to power our headquarters,
distribution and customer contact centers and growing base of
retail stores resulted in being named as one of the EPA's Top 10
retail green power purchasers." "Green power" is defined as
electricity that is partially or entirely generated from
environmentally preferable resources, such as solar, wind,
geothermal, biogas, biomass and low-impact hydro resources.
Renewable energy sources are cleaner than conventional sources of
electricity that produce carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, a
greenhouse gas linked to global climate change. Green power
purchases help accelerate the development of new renewable energy
capacity nationwide. Coldwater Creek is offsetting all of its
electricity consumption for its headquarters, distribution and
customer contact centers and growing base of retail stores with
wind power. The company is purchasing 45 million kilowatt- hours of
renewable energy certificates from 3 Phases Energy. In addition to
being recognized as one of the Top 10 retail Green Power Partners,
Coldwater Creek is also being recognized as a Green Power
Leadership Club Member. The Leadership Club honors Green Power
Partners that have made an exemplary green power purchase that
significantly exceeds minimum Green Power Partnership purchase
requirements. Over the next three years, the company has committed
to buy more than 217,000 megawatt-hours of wind-generated
electricity. By supporting wind energy, Coldwater Creek is
preventing more than 299 million pounds of CO2 -- a key greenhouse
gas -- from entering the Earth's atmosphere between now and 2009.
This is the equivalent CO2 savings of taking nearly 30,000 cars off
the road for one year, or the same amount of CO2 absorbed by
protecting more than 113,000 acres of trees. "EPA applauds
Coldwater Creek for its leading voluntary green power purchase and
for helping to drive demand for new renewable energy power
sources," said Kathleen Hogan, Director of the Climate Protection
Partnership Division for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
"This Top 25 list includes a number of marquee American retailers
that are buying significant amounts of green power." About
Coldwater Creek Coldwater Creek is an integrated
triple-sales-channel retailer of women's apparel, jewelry, gifts
and accessories through a growing number of premium retail stores
located across the United States, an e-commerce web site at
http://www.coldwatercreek.com/ and direct-mail catalogs. For more
information on social responsibility at Coldwater Creek, go to
http://www.coldwatercreek.com/ and select the Social Responsibility
link at the bottom of the home page. About the U.S. EPA's Green
Power Partnership EPA's Green Power Partnership is a voluntary
program helping to increase the use of green power among leading
U.S. organizations. The program encourages organizations to
purchase green power as a way to reduce the risk of climate change
and the environmental impacts associated with conventional
electricity use. Currently, the Green Power Partnership has over
600 Partners voluntarily purchasing more than 6.8 billion kWh of
green power. Partners include a wide variety of leading
organizations such as Fortune 500 companies, local, state, and
federal governments, trade associations, as well as colleges and
universities. For more information on EPA's Top 10 retail Partners
list, visit http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/partners/top10retail.htm
. For a full listing of the more than 600 EPA Green Power Partners
and information about buying green power, see the Partnership's Web
site at http://www.epa.gov/greenpower/ . Contact: David Gunter
Director of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations
208-263-2266 DATASOURCE: Coldwater Creek CONTACT: David Gunter,
Director of Corporate Communications & Investor Relations of
Coldwater Creek, +1-208-263-2266, or Web site:
http://www.coldwatercreek.com/
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