- Sustainable Business Oregon
- IKEA wants all the sun.
Portland’s IKEA officially plugged in its massive solar energy system this morning. The 2,072 panels are expected to reduce 432 tons of carbon dioxide annually (equivalent to the emissions of 77 cars). This hefty sustainability investment comes on the heels of the Portland hub installing a pair of electric vehicle chargers last July and developing pre-built house plans in Feburary.
“A solar energy system will help reduce the store’s carbon footprint and represents another investment toward our future in this community,”says IKEA Portland store manager Alessandra Zini in this morning’s press release.
This makes the Portland store the 16th IKEA in the country to switch to solar. Coming soon: Happy Swedish IKEA cows fueling the store with their happy Swedish manure. DIY kits to follow!
a drop in the bucket compared to all the CO2 spewed by their shoppers’ cars and truck getting to the store.
The phrasing for the IKEA/Ideabox relationship is a little backwards. Ideabox has been around for awhile – this is not something IKEA would have pursued without Ideabox.
Jesus…crappy future-landfill cardboard furniture and mountains of unneeded consumer junk are “sustainable” now.
Forget the bird, slap a solar panel on it and the hipsters/yupsters/dipsters will flock to your door. I <3 you Portland, and all your contemptible gullibility.
Yes, the term “sustainable” is ridiculously over-used.
People flock to IKEA anyway. Wal-Mart has been greening up a model that’s of course deeply and fundamentally unsustainable. Same with the US military. They’re doing it because it makes practical sense for them to reduce their use of nonrenewable resources that are steadily going up in price, not because they’re trying to hoodwink any nebulous categories of people that Steve R. doesn’t like.
I fucking love everybody, geyser, especially you.
77 cars?! That’s it?! I hope Melancholia comes true, we all deserves to be wiped out.
a blatant piece of greenwashing propaganda
PV Solar and sustainable do not belong anywhere near each other. Quite shameful reporting.
What about onsite green stormwater facilities? There’s a lot asphalt out there..