<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; ">Hooray for Hercules. I wonder how many of these council members were asked to recuse themselves from the vote. Anyway, I'm no fan of mall wart, and don't want the super wal-mart here in Moscow, but here's an article which is VERY interesting. Someone at the city council meeting here in Moscow suggested green roofing (mentioned in this article)--guess Lee Scott listened. Their motives may be purely bottom line, but if they succeed, they could be the model for businesses everywhere to save money and inadvertently do the right thing!!<DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Excerpt below. If you'd like to read the entire article, go to:</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"><DIV><A href="http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/05/24/notes052406.DTL&nl=fix">http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/gate/archive/2006/05/24/notes052406.DTL&nl=fix</A> </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 7px;"> </SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>Can You Still Hate Wal-Mart? </B></SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><B>It's a shockingly eco-friendly plan from the world's most toxic retailer. Did hell just freeze over?</B></SPAN></FONT><DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;">There has been, to date, very little good to say about this most voracious and powerful of low-end, trashy retailers, and certainly nothing from anyone even remotely concerned with the health of the planet and of the attuned consumers who inhabit it. Wal-Mart has always been, quite appropriately, the devil.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;">Until now. As juicy and warmhearted eco-blog Treehugger mentions in its </SPAN></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/05/its_getting_har.php"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000E61" face="Geneva" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;">latest Wal-Mart roundup</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;"> (and as the New York Times later discussed in its </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.nytimes.com/pages/business/businessspecial2/index.html"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000E61" face="Geneva" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;">huge "Business of Green" section</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;"> last week), it seems that back in October, Wal-Mart's president, Lee Scott, delivered a "secret" speech to employees about "21st Century Leadership," in which he outlined a whole slew of what can only be called truly remarkable and potentially world-altering agenda items to help ensure the future health of the world's biggest shopping hell.</SPAN></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;">And what a speech it was. Packed with all sorts of pledges and goals of such a green and sustainable and forward-thinking nature it might as well have been floating on boats of tofu on waves of Sierra Club blown by winds of Utne Reader. It was, in a word, surreal. And if even half of it is true, more than a little revolutionary.</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><P class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 13pt; "><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;">There was talk of stores eventually being supplied with 100-percent renewable energy. Talk of ultimately creating zero waste, of pledging to reduce packaging materials across the board and create more recyclables and replace PVC packaging in all Wal-Mart branded items with more eco-friendly materials. And when you're talking megatons of plastic, that's saying a lot.</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="1"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 9px;"><O:P style=""></O:P></SPAN></FONT></SPAN></P><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;">It gets better. Wal-Mart has already committed to selling </SPAN></FONT></FONT><A href="http://www.treehugger.com/files/2006/01/walmart_sets_10.php"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000E61" face="Geneva" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;">100-percent sustainable fish</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;"> in its food markets. They are already experimenting with green roofs, corn-based plastics and green energy (which is now used to power four Canadian stores, for a total of 39,000 megawatts, amounting to what some estimate is the </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2006-05-04/news_feature.php"><SPAN style=""><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#000E61" face="Geneva" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;">single biggest purchase</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Geneva" size="3"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 11.6667px;"> of renewable energy in Canadian history). Is this remarkable? Groundbreaking? Utterly confounding? Well, yes and no.</SPAN></FONT></SPAN></DIV></DIV></DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On May 25, 2006, at 11:37 AM, TIM RIGSBY wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From wakeupwalmart.com</DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">" 'Politics is the art of controlling your environment.' That is one of the key things I learned in these years, and I learned it the hard way. Anybody who thinks that 'it doesn't matter who's President' has never been Drafted and sent off to fight and die in a vicious, stupid War on the other side of the World -- or been beaten and gassed by Police for trespassing on public property -- or been hounded by the IRS for purely political reasons -- or locked up in the Cook County Jail with a broken nose and no phone access and twelve perverts wanting to stomp your ass in the shower. That is when it matters who is President or Governor or Police Chief. That is when you will wish you had voted." - Hunter S. Thompson</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">From: "Paul Blank, WakeUpWalMart.com" <<A href="mailto:info@wakeupwalmart.com">info@wakeupwalmart.com</A>></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Reply-To: <A href="mailto:info@wakeupwalmart.com">info@wakeupwalmart.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To: <A href="mailto:tim.rigsby@hotmail.com">tim.rigsby@hotmail.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Subject: Hercules Defeats Goliath</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Date: Thu, 25 May 2006 11:36 -0400</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Dear Tim,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Yesterday, a town named Hercules in California made history.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>The town, desperate to save its community from the negative impact of Wal-Mart, actually voted to use the publics power of eminent domain to stop Wal-Mart from building there.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>After the City Council voted unanimously in favor of the people over Wal-Mart, a cheer broke out and, all across America, headlines read, Hercules Defeats Goliath.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>I couldnt have written the headlines any better.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We may not have the same amount of money, lobbyists or consultants as Wal-Mart, but when ordinary people join together, in common purpose, they can accomplish extraordinary things.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>That is what our campaign is all about.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Hercules is proof.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">The American people can stand up to powerful corporations like Wal-Mart and WIN!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Help us win all across America.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Please contribute to our campaign today.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Your contribution of ,<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>or<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>will help us fight for change.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://www.wakeupwalmart.com/contribute-today/">https://www.wakeupwalmart.com/contribute-today/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">What you are doing in this campaign is simply amazing.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You have created one of the fastest growing social movements in America with over 235,000 supporters.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>And, everyday, you sign up another 100 new people to our movement.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You have defied all of the pundits, columnists, political experts, public relations strategists and lobbyists who didnt believe you could build a movement to change America.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>We are now, as the Associated Press recently put it, the hottest, highest-stakes political contest in America today.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">They are right, the stakes couldnt be higher.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Because this is not a typical campaign, it is a fight for what kind of America we want to live in - Wal-Marts America, where corporations use their power to exploit people, or Our America, where people win!</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Our fight starts with you.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>You have the power to fight for change.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Please help by contributing today.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="https://www.wakeupwalmart.com/contribute-today/">https://www.wakeupwalmart.com/contribute-today/</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">You are proving the American people do have the power to take our country back from powerful corporations like Wal-Mart.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>And, everyday we grow stronger we are restoring the balance of power between obscene profits and the American people.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">We may not be able to change all of corporate America at once, but, together, we will change Wal-Mart, challenge corporate Americas stranglehold on power, and profoundly change our country for the better.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Thank you for being leaders in the fight to change Wal-Mart and change America.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Best,</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">Paul Blank</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://wakeupwalmart.com">http://wakeupwalmart.com</A></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">P.S.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Only you have the power to grow our movement.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>Please make sure to send this email to your friends and ask them to join WakeUpWalMart.com today.</DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; min-height: 14px; "><BR></DIV><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; ">To unsubscribe, please visit: <A href="http://lists.wakeupwalmart.com/unsubscribe.html?key=wm44eT8HPM">http://lists.wakeupwalmart.com/unsubscribe.html?key=wm44eT8HPM</A></DIV> </BLOCKQUOTE><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; 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