SAINT CHARLES, MO.—Yesterday was Energy Star’s Seventh Annual Change a Light Day. It was the day Saint Charles-based Pineapple Hospitality saluted its clients who already have replaced 75,000 incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents this year.
“In just the first nine months of 2006, our lodging lighting retrofits have saved a combined 6.8 million kilowatt hours, which is the equivalent of planting 1,332 acres of forest and reducing carbon dioxide emissions by 10 million pounds,” says Ray Burger, president of Saint Charles, Mo.-based Pineapple Hospitality.
“These green retrofits, which literally are as simple as changing out a few lightbulbs, also will save these lodging facilities a combined $1 million annually—30 to 70 percent of their related lighting bills—and this will go directly to their bottom lines,” Burger adds.
Following are just a few of the customers Pineapple Hospitality salutes for their ongoing efforts to reduce energy consumption and their impact on global warming and environmental sustainability: America’s Best Value Inn, Gainesville, Fla.; Best Western Pzazz, Burlington, Iowa; Comfort Inn & Suites, Springfield, Mo.; Super 8, El Cerrito, Calif.; and Wyndham Greenspoint, Houston.
Last year, more than 70,000 people in all 50 states and several U.S. territories took Energy Star’s Change a Light Day pledge—helping to save 23 kilowatt hours of energy and preventing more than 33 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions. This year’s goal is for 500,000 to take the pledge.
Go to Pineapple Hospitality or Energy Star for more information.
