We believe that our work to care for the environment not only makes us better neighbors — it helps us serve you better. By being energy efficient and conserving natural resources, we’re not only helping the planet, we’re also creating savings we can pass on to you in the form of everyday low prices.

Assembled here is a partial list of the many ways H-E-B is making sustainable practices a part of how we conduct business.

• In 2006, we donated 22.3 million pounds of food, at a conservative value of $25.6 million, to fourteen America’s Second Harvest Food Banks located in cities where we operate, and nine in Mexico that are members of the Association of Mexican Food Banks. That’s enough food to provide more than 115 million meals – or enough to provide one meal to 1 in every 3 people in the United States.
• Solely out of our Reclamation Center in San Antonio, we shipped and delivered over 330 full trailer loads of food free of charge to Texas Food Banks.

Our community investment portfolio includes contributions to support environmental programs from organizations such as:

• Keep Texas Beautiful
• Earth Share of Texas
• Recycling Alliance of Texas
• Hill Country Conservancy in Austin
• Cibolo Nature Preserve in Boerne
• Bexar Land Trust in San Antonio
• Nature Discovery Center in Houston
• Sabal Palm Audubon Center in Brownsville
• H-E-B School Recycling Program

• In October 2006, we received an Environmental Excellence Award from the EPA’s SmartWay^SM Transport Partnership, naming our fleet as one of the most energy efficient in the United States.
• In May 2006, our newest Austin store at Slaughter Lane and Escarpment was awarded a 4-Star Rating by the Austin Green Building Program. At that time, H-E-B was one of only three retailers who had achieved a 4-Star Project Rating.
• We were the first retail company recognized by the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality with the Texas Governor’s Award for Environmental Excellence in 1997. We received it again in 2005.
• In 2005, the EPA recognized us as one of 18 organizations leading the way in response to their “ENERGY STAR Building Challenge” for preserving natural habitats and conserving materials and energy in the construction of new stores.