Article: Wal-Mart goes green with sustainable store.(NEWS & TRENDS)

On July 20, retail giant Wal-Mart t opened a prototype supercenter in the Dallas suburb of McKinney, Texas, that relies heavily on sustainable design and green technology.

The store--and a nearly identical big box in Aurora, Colo., set to open later this year--are part of a three-year experiment that will determine the future of sustainable and green design for the world's largest retailer. Wal-Mart and its commis-sioning services agent, Colorado-based Architectural Energy Corporation (AEC), prepared a report that detailed their assumptions and beliefs about how the McKinney store would save resources and conserve energy. Auditors from the U.S. Energy ...

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