Top 25 Green Power Purchasers

Pepsi, one of 25 companies making an effort to use renewable energy sources.

The Environmental Protection Agency recently announced the country's top 25 green power purchasers. These companies are trying to run their operations on wind, solar, hydro and other renewable energy sources. Understand that we are not saying these companies are "green", but they are purchasing alternative sources of energy and cutting back a bit on pollution. In fact, many of these are lacking in social and environmental responsibilities in my opinion.

Renewable energy purchases through the EPA's Green Partners program have increased 163% since January 2006.

Here's the list, including the kilowatt-hours per year for each:

1. PepsiCo: 1,105,045,154
2. Wells Fargo & Company: 550,000,000
3. Whole Foods Market: 509,104,786
4. The Pepsi Bottling Group, Inc.: 457,851,838
5. U.S. Air Force: 457,500,000
6. Johnson & Johnson: 400,702,978
7. EPA: 329,880,513
8. Kohl's Department Stores: 201,396,000
9. Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts: 196,003,000
10. Starbucks: 185,000,000
11. DuPont Company: 180,000,000
12. U.S. Department of Energy : 157,964,000
13. PepsiAmericas, Inc.: 157,062,875
14. Vail Resorts, Inc.: 152,000,000
15. Cisco Systems, Inc.: 128,204,000
16. HSBC North America : 124,544,000
17. Staples: 121,800,000
18. New York University: 118,616,000
19. The World Bank Group: 114,735,000
20. University of Pennsylvania : 112,000,000
21. IBM Corporation: 110,103,000
22. Mohawk Fine Papers Inc.: 100,200,000
23. U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs: 90,000,000
24. NatureWorks LLC: 89,000,000
25. Sprint Nextel: 87,600,000

Now, if we can only get starbucks to promote using your own coffee mug.....:)