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Thrivent Financial is Going Green, Too

by Mike Knight

In December of 2007, the Thrivent Financial for Lutherans Corporate Center in Minneapolis received an Energy Star Award, just one of many positive results from a company-wide “green push” that began five years ago, according to Ted Stearns of Thrivent Financial Building Operations in Minneapolis.

“Since 2002, we have nearly cut the emissions of the Minneapolis facility in half,” Stearns notes. Other results from the five-year improvement plan developed by the Center for Energy and Environment include a savings of 6,697 tons of CO2, which is roughly equivalent to the emissions from lighting more than 8,000 Minnesota households or of taking 1,100 cars off the road for a year. Overall, the data also showed a savings of $568,944 in annual energy costs when comparing 2002 to 2007.

At Thrivent Financial’s building in Appleton, Wisconsin, green strategies include solar heating and geothermal cooling, faucet sensors, even returning the grounds to natural prairie (to reduce energy used for mowing). “We’re constantly looking for ways to reduce energy,” says Appleton building operations manager Michael Danelski.

Mike Knight is a writer in Indianapolis, Indiana. He covers lifestyle, health and travel topics for various publications.

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