Set sprinklers to water the lawn or garden only - not the street or sidewalk.
Use the microwave to cook small meals. (It uses less power than an oven.)
Purchase "Green Power" for your home's electricity. (Contact your power supplier to see where and if it is available.)
Scrape, rather than rinse, dishes before loading into the dishwasher; wash only full loads.
Cut back on air conditioning and heating use if you can.
Turn off appliances and lights when you leave the room.
Sunflower Farmers Market, a Colorado-based organic and natural supermarket chain, plans to open a store in a former Carnival Food Store in Old East Dallas next year.
The building, at 1800 N. Henderson Ave., has been vacant for more than two years.
In April, founder and chief executive Mike Gilliland said he expected to open five or six stores in the Dallas area over the next 18 months. Sunflower has a Plano store opening later this year in space vacated by Albertson's at Preston and West Parker roads.
Sunflower has a Plano store under construction in about half the space vacated by Albertson's at Preston and West Parker roads. That store opens later this year.
Both the East Dallas and Plano stores are near Whole Foods Markets, which is Sunflower’s real estate strategy, Mr. Gilliland said. In April, he said, “We like to locate near Whole Foods because they've educated the shoppers, and we can sell to them at lower prices."
Whole Foods is renovating the building that once was a Minyard supermarket at Abrams Road and Gaston Avenue in Lakewood. The store, scheduled to open in January, will replace Dallas' original Whole Foods on Lower Greenville.
Sunflower’s advertising message is “serious food…silly prices.” Its produce departments include a mixture of organic and nonorganics. It sells natural and organic meats and poultry and almost 800 private-label grocery products. Sunflower says by stocking a limited selection, it’s able to keep prices lower.
Sprouts Farmers Market, a chain of small natural food stores based in Phoenix, opened its first area store in Plano in 2005 and now has seven stores in the Dallas area.
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