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www.HartfordBusiness.com March 14, 2016 • Hartford Business Journal 7 WHAT'S AHEAD: ■ 3/21 Focus: Engineering ■ The List: Largest Engineering Firms ■ Nonprofit Profile: Southside Institutions Neighborhoods Alliance CALENDAR TUESDAY, MARCH 22 Innovative efforts to close the global inequality gap In the fight against global inequality, what's working, what's not and how do we know? In a special collaboration, the Presidents' College and the World Affairs Council of Connecticut will present a discussion March 22 exploring today's innovative global development efforts, the importance of evaluating what's working and what's not, and if these efforts have brought us any closer to closing the international economic divide. The featured speaker will be Annie Duflo, executive director of Innovations for Poverty Action Lab in New Haven, and former executive director of the Centre for Microfinance in Chennai, India. The event runs from 6 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the University of Hartford, KF Room, Mortenson Library, West Hartford. Cost to attend is $10 for members, $15 for nonmembers. For more information or to register contact: Amanda Jolly, 860.241.6118, ajolly@ctwac.org. F O R A C O M P L E T E L I S T O F G R E A T E R H A R T F O R D B U S I N E S S E V E N T S , G O T O W W W . H A R T F O R D B U S I N E S S . C O M A N D C L I C K O N ' C A L E N D A R . ' A L L C A L E N D A R I T E M S M U S T B E S U B M I T T E D E L E C T R O N I C A L L Y V I A O U R W E B S I T E , H A R T F O R D B U S I N E S S . C O M . ENERGY & UTILITIES Whole Foods to quadruple solar stores Whole Foods Market said last week it will retrofit 100 of its stores with rooftop solar panels, including some of its nine Con- necticut locations. Whole Foods said it expects the solar projects to propel it into the top 25 corporate solar users in the U.S. The current leader, as ranked by the Solar Energy Industries Association, is Walmart, which has 142 megawatts of solar panels on approximately 350 of its locations. While some retailers have adopted solar faster, Whole Foods is no newcomer to renewables and energy efficiency. The company has more than 400 U.S. stores, two dozen of which already have solar panels, according to its 2015 annual report. Whole Foods has had a fuel cell at its Glastonbury store since 2008. Its Fairfield store got a fuel cell in 2011. There are electric- vehicle charging stations at 60 Whole Foods stores. The company has also diverted 90 percent of landfill waste at 14 of its stores, and none have offered disposable plastic bags since 2008. SolarCity is designing Whole Foods' solar systems. REAL ESTATE Popular bakery plans WH Center location A popular West Hartford bakery plans to open a second location in the town's center after five years in the Elmwood section. The Hartford Baking Co., located at 625 New Park Ave., West Hartford, will open a second retail location on Farmington Avenue in West Hartford Center in May 2016. Bakery President Scott Kluger began the company five years ago using family recipes. The Hartford Baking Co. grew out of local farmers markets in the community and still is 100 percent locally owned and operated. In 2015, Kluger told the Hartford Courant he was considering a location in downtown Hartford, in the Pratt Street storefront for- merly occupied by Jojo's Coffee. 1 in 10 tri-Hartford homeowners 'upside down' One in 10 homeowners in the Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford region remain "underwater" on their mortgages, mean- ing they owe more on their dwellings than they are worth, a fresh analysis shows. 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