Congratulations on your accomplishments in the reduction of energy expenses at the store level and also for your continued commitment towards maximizing the efficiency and reducing the impact of our carbon footprint worldwide.

As you aim towards the goal of 20kWh per square foot in the year 2015, I’ve been thinking of our company direction and aim to “kick ass”.
It seems there is a vast untapped market awaiting us in solar and wind energy.

I’ve been wondering why more emphasis on solar and wind energy do-it- yourself products, even in smaller experimental form, are not yet available at the Home Depot? In contribution to your energy goal, I wonder if on a larger scale, the space above our rooftops could be transformed into showcased solar panel and wind energy fields that connect to the grid while also contributing to your goal. Is there anyone we can partner with to accomplish such a goal?

I see bays with small wind turbines and solar panels, on an affordable scale for rv’s and boats. We could also provide installation services for large scale home and business applications, all sold from POP display panels (a minimal investment).

The process would quickly establish our leadership as a trusted source in this field, while also demystifying the applications and current reality of this technology for the average consumer.

The national publicity alone would be the payoff, and curiosity would drive more customers through our doors. If there is any way I can help to contribute to your goals, or be involved, I remain available.

Best regards,

Allan Zuckerman
Employee # 113359384- recent hire on the MET Team
6214 Stillwater Court
University Park, Florida 34201
941-400-5504

Thanks for your comments, you are correct in the increase of VOC’s in darker colors for most paints. We are very pleased that Freshaire does not contain any VOC’s even at the darkest colors. We offer “0″ VOC’s in all colors.

Ron Jarvis

At The Home Depot we stive for excellent customer service and we vow to research and promote products that have less of an impact on the environment. We are not perfect at either of these but spend a lot of our resources for continual improvement. Dictating to foreign countries on which energy resource they will choose to supply their citizens is not our expertise. To date no one from Chile has called and asked us our opinion.

Our wood purchases from Chile (less than 5% of our wood supply) are from plantations 1000 miles from the proposed Pantagonia Dam project.

If the dams were being created to benefit Home Depot or to supply products to the Home Depot we would quickly join the dialogue but the proposed Dams are in no way related to the harvest or supply of products to the Home Depot (we do acknowledge that there is minor joint ownership in the wood companies and proposed dam construction companies). It is up to the Chilean Government and citizens to decide what source they use for power in the future.

I understand that as the California campaign manager you must create visibilty for your cause and I hope you find a line of communication to the Chilean Energy and Environmental Departments.

After reading your request I wanted to save David the trouble of a second interview.

I tried writing to the address info@getwithgreen.com to advise you that you should look more closely at the growing campaign to make Home Depot accountable to their green image and signed environmental agreements.

Home Depot has been approached by the most important Socially Responsible Investment fund in the country asking them to take a stand and stop the damming of free and wild rivers in the Chilean Patagonia. Home Depot is directly connected to this controversy.

I recommend looking at the International Rivers website (www.internationalrivers.org/patagonia) and seeing the letter at the trilliuminvest.com and consider doing another interview with Ron Jarvis, if not simply asking your customers to do what thousands of people have already done–stop shopping at Home Depot!

Sincerely getting with green,

Gary