I popped by a Loblaw store on my way to work to grab a coffee and was pleasantly surprised that the temperature difference wasn’t noticeable at all. I live in an apartment but turning down the heat a couple of degrees is definitely something I can do for the rest of the winter to make a difference. And I hope Sweater Day becomes a yearly tradition!
You can take part in the green fun and energy savings too. If every Canadian turned down their thermostat by two degrees in the winter, we could save about 2.2 megatonnes of carbon dioxide per year – the equivalent of taking about 350,000 cars off of the road. So when you head home tonight, turn down that thermostat just a touch, dig out a funky sweater, and send your pics to webteam@wwfcanada.org.
Update
Great pics sent to us from Loblaw and WWF-Canada teams across the country!
Loblaw Atlantic Support Centre in Halifax
- Loblaw Atlantic Support Centre in Halifax
Loblaws Supermarket, St. Clair West, Toronto
Amanda Regado, Loblaws Supermarket, St. Clair West, Toronto
Loblaws Supermarket, Queen's Quay, Toronto
Real Canadian Superstore, Langley BC (they definitely win for most outrageous sweaters!)
Real Canadian Superstore, Langley BC
Shelley MacNevin, Summerside Superstore, PEI (Shelley made this unique sweater!)
The "best of the worst" sweaters from the Loblaws West Office
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There’s absolutely nothing wrong with trying to keep the air clean and perhaps saving energy.
But man made “Global Warming” is a complete fabrication (HOAX) and a plot to eventually strip the rights away from people. If people don’t wake up and see what’s really going on we will all be stuck paying a useless 25% carbon tax that will only make the rich richer and the middleclass poor. They will want us to pollute as much as possible so we can pay them more tax money, money which will never go toward curbing pollution in the 1st place.
Do internet research, there’s FACUAL EVIDENCE that they’ve fabricated the whole thing and tampered with there climate models because its telling them there’s no such thing as Global Warming.
Really people need to wake up because if the rediculous “Global Warming HOAX” wins over people, then start preparing for the New World Order, becaues you’ll have no more rights to enjoy.
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The Global Elite will continue to push the mere idea of global warming. Lord Christopher Moncton as well as thousands of scientists have been telling the world of the hoax. The WWF, from my understanding, was started by The Bilderbergs. Suckers to all. There is no man-made global warming…but a carbon-tax will most certainly be used for the funding of the New World Order. Time to wake up people…and we are…
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Sweater Day was a great idea! Please make it an annual event and expand it to more grocery stores around the country.
Congratulations to WWF, Loblaws and to the graphic designer who designed the poster. Great poster!
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Sweater Day was a great idea! Please make it an annual event and expand it to more grocery stores throughout Canada!
Congratulations to WWF, Loblaws and to the graphic designer who designed the poster! Great poster!
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Hi Alberta. Thanks for your comment. The intention was to show how these little changes can add up – as you’ll see on our Living Planet Community site, Canadians have saved over 107,000,000 kg of greenhouse gases by taking similar steps. That’s the equivalent of taking 17,835 cars off the road for a year.
http://community.wwf.ca/
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All of that effort for a mere 5.6 kilograms of greenhouse gases? A measly one half of one percent of a tonne???? What a waste of time and effort.
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Awesome idea! I hate shopping in the winter because I always get too hot. Hey, it’s winter and I wear sweaters, but then indoors it’s too much. I always thought it ridiculous that they heat the store so much, then have all those open freezers that use up more energy keeping stuff cool.
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Grocery stores are so cold anyways, they could make every day Sweater Day and no one would bat an eye
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I’ve just learned that Loblaw actually turned down the temperature three degrees (rather than two as I originally reported). Have updated this post!
Sara
WWF-Canada
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