{"id":21546,"date":"2015-11-07T16:00:37","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/?p=21546"},"modified":"2015-11-07T15:49:05","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T21:49:05","slug":"montgomery-county-co-op-becomes-clarksville-montgomery-county-green-certified","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/2015\/11\/07\/montgomery-county-co-op-becomes-clarksville-montgomery-county-green-certified\/","title":{"rendered":"Montgomery County Co-Op becomes Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certified"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Clarksville-MontgomeryMontgomery County, TN<\/strong> \u2013 The latest organization to host a Green Ribbon Cutting for becoming Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certified is the Montgomery County Co-Op.<\/p>\n

Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett, City of Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan, and Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce Melinda Shepard were there to congratulate the Co-Op for a job well done.<\/p>\n

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(L to R) Daryl Pater, CMC Green Certification Steering Committee Member; Mayor McMillan; Keith Earhart; Josh Briggs, Mayor Durrett, Ashley Stokes, Montgomery Co-Op Marketing Director and Melinda Shepard.<\/p><\/div>\n

Mayor Durrett asked Josh Briggs, Manager of the Co-Op, what types of activities they did to earn their certification.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest thing and what has saved us the most money was changing our lighting from metal halide lighting to T8 fluorescent bulbs. We saw savings immediately from making that switch. We are also recycling cardboard, paper and plastics and we\u2019ve found ways to reduce the amount of water being used in our agricultural practices. We have cardboard in all Montgomery County locations and are incorporating the other conservation initiatives into the other stores.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clarksville Mayor McMillan asked how receptive the employees were to the changes. Keith Earhart, retail store manager said, \u201cit\u2019s really just become habit now at work.\u201d McMillan said she hopes employees are taking some of those practices home. Briggs agreed that is happening as well. \u201cI bring my recycling from home into work and allow the other employees to do the same. This has been a good process for us to identify what we could do to make a difference and save money.\u201d<\/p>\n

Montgomery Farmers\u2019 Co-Op is a one stop for all agricultural and farming supply needs. For more information about the Montgomery County Co-Op in Clarksville, visit 1801 Wilma Rudolph Boulevard, visit montgomeryco-op.com, or call 931.647.2376.<\/p>\n

If your business is interested in participating in the Green Certification Program, contact Michelle Newell at manewell@mcgtn.net<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Montgomery County, TN \u2013 The latest organization to host a Green Ribbon Cutting for becoming Clarksville-Montgomery County Green Certified is the Montgomery County Co-Op. Montgomery County Mayor Jim Durrett, City of Clarksville Mayor Kim McMillan, and Executive Director of the Chamber of Commerce Melinda Shepard were there to congratulate the Co-Op for a job well […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[27065,1759,21330,17327,13565,1373,23051,27064,693,27063,5919,160,27062,10067,8920],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xGYI-5Bw","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21546"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21547,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21546\/revisions\/21547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.discoverclarksville.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}