Posts tagged Whole Foods
Is it Green to shop at Boulder Whole Foods? just a giant Walmart type? by Rob Smoke
Jun 12th
Further on, Wells’ time traveller reaches extraordinary conclusions: “Deducing that the Morlocks have taken his time machine, he explores the Morlock tunnels, learning that they feed on the Eloi. His revised analysis is that their relationship is not one of lords and servants but of livestock and ranchers, and with no real challenges facing either species. They have both lost the intelligence and character of Man at its peak.”
If Wells were time-transported today, to Boulder, he would have stood in the parking lot of the Pearl street Whole Foods and yelled, “Morlocks, come out of there! Spare the Eloi!” He would have at least certainly blinked.
If you shop for groceries, ask yourself, is it really either “green” or environmentally conscious to drive your vehicle across town for the sake of shopping at one particular store? Are you sure there isn’t a local version — less perfectly packaged — that would serve most needs and actually allow you to walk to it?
And are you sure no Morlocks lurk within the giant store that seems to have…everything?
Boulder East, Community Cycles Partner to Provide Pool/Bike Program
Apr 4th
Boulder East’s PoolBike program provides Boulder companies with PoolBikes and setting up and managing these bikes available to employees. Employees of 21 local companies including Whole Foods, Roche Colorado, Fresh Produce, Foothills Community Hospital and many more, can go online and reserve a bike at their convenience. The online bike manager also calculates how many miles a person has ridden, gas saved, calories burned and carbon dioxide emission saved.
“Our PoolBikes provide employees who did not drive to work with an easy and convenient means of transportation during the day to run errands and go to meetings,” said Boulder East Marketing Manager Tracy Foster. “It also encourages individuals who drove to work to leave their cars parked during the day and instead bicycle to meetings, stores, and restaurants.” The PoolBike program is one of Boulder East’s most popular programs with 21 different companies and 36 bikes.
A likely partner, Community Cycles (CC) is a non-profit organization of bicycle enthusiasts whose mission is to educate and advocate for the safe use of bicycles as an affordable, viable and sustainable means of transportation and personal enjoyment within our community. Community Cycles provides re-cycled bikes and a welcoming space to learn about bicycle repair, maintenance and operation through outreach and advocacy activities.
For more information or to join the PoolBike program, visit www.bouldereast.org. For more information on Community Cycles, contact www.communitycycles.org/
Boulder East is a non-profit organization created to promote transit, carpooling, biking, vanpooling, telecommuting and other transportation options in an effort to cut back on single-occupant vehicles on the road. For more information contact Tracy Foster at (303) 319-3069 or email tracy.foster@bouldereast.org
Contact: Bob Whitson (303) 819-6838
How many Boulder restaurants will feed you when you are down and out?? How about none
Aug 26th
We aren’t talking about the restaurants who turn their nightly food over to Food Share or do benefits for the Home less shelter. We are talking about; If you are hungry and broke and walked in at 2:30 in the afternoon, how many Boulder restaurants would fix you a plate, give you a rootbeer and say “here you go, everybody has to eat”? Think Dave Query would do that? How about Whole Foods?
How about no they wouldn’t. They’d call the police or security and tell you to get the hell out. There is not one restaurant in Boulder that will feed you for free  day in and day out when you are down and out.
Well there is One, actually.  They not only will feed you, they will help you with other social services needs, too. That place is Daddy Bruce’s Bar B Que. It is run by an 82 year black man, the only black owned Restaurant in Boulder.  This week alone Bruce gave out over 70 meals. On top of that he took four sick men and women to the hospital ER. He took another poor soul to the Eyeglass store and bought her a frame for her broken glasses.  He took another man to Verizon store to buy a Charger for his phone and then after hours he drove a homeless family to Fort Collins.
Why does he do it.? A good old fashioned answer to that question. The bible tells me to. It is what Jesus taught. It is what we are all called to do. So Boulder Foodies, if you want to support a the only Boulder Restaurant with soul, go over to Daddy Bruces and order up $100 dollars worth of Bar B Q this week and pay homage to the holy man  who feeds the poor.