Red Robin International awards Eco-story Innovator of the Year Award Red Robin International of Greenwood Village Colorado recognized Eco-story LED Lighting as its 1st Annual Innovator of the Year for creating an LED lighting solution for the Red Robin corporate restaurants.  Eco-story supplied 10,000 LED lights to Red Robin restaurants beginning in late 2008.

Eco-story's LED light consumes only 4.9 watts of electricity which allowed Red Robin to save 90% in utility costs over their old 50W halogen bulbs.

Red Robin has calculated that they are currently saving approximately $600,000 per year.

STRATHAM, N.H.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In an effort to reduce its energy demand and contribution to global warming The Timberland Company (NYSE: TBL) announced today that state of the art LED lighting will be replacing less efficient incandescent spotlights in 70% of its North American stores by the end of 2009. By reducing the electricity used on a daily basis for lighting in its stores, Timberland expects to shrink the carbon footprint of its US stores by an additional 11%.

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Source: www.businesswire.com/

Thanks to new lighting technologies, Seattle may be heading toward a brighter, more efficient future but will it be better?

As each warm, languid summer night falls on Seattle, most of the city's 84,000-plus streetlights flicker to life, bathing our nocturnal urban landscape in their familiar pinkish-orange light. These lamps lit by high-pressure sodium bulbs have come to define our city's night time appearance, coloring our streets, our neighborhoods, our parks and our collective consciousness with an amber-hued gloominess that seems as natural to us as cloud cover.

But at the intersection of 16th Avenue E and E Highland Drive, something seems amiss. This neighborhood of stately homes, just a block east of Volunteer Park, is one of the city's oldest, dating back to the 1800s. Massive maple trees tower over the streets; lawns, homes and gardens are precisely maintained; and there's an aura of anachronism here that seems lifted from a movie set”except for the blinding streetlights, that is.

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Source: www.InteriorDesign.net
http://www.seattlemag.com/0p135a1590/hot-button-bright-lights-big-city/?currentPage=1

Designers and manufacturers are getting excited about the potential of LEDs
Craig Kellogg — Interior Design, 7/1/2009

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Source: www.InteriorDesign.net
http://www.interiordesign.net/article/ca6671218.html?q=david+singer

YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK, May 8, 2009 “Xanterra Parks & Resorts, operator of lodges, gift shops, restaurants and activities in Yellowstone National Park, will convert its gift shop in the Mammoth Hot Springs Hotel into an interpretive facility dedicated to informing park visitors about climate change and offering environmentally friendly products.

Although other stores may offer some of these products, we believe this is the first retail operation in a national park or elsewhere devoted to interpreting climate change, said Beth Pratt, director of environmental affairs for Xanterra's Yellowstone operations. Our goal for this store is to connect the park visitor to the threats climate change and pollution pose to our national parks and our world with the need to make sustainable consumer choices.

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Source: www.hotelsmag.com/
http://www.hotelsmag.com/article/CA6657250.html?industryid=47566

Company saves money, energy

By PATRICK McARDLE RUTLAND HERALD STAFF
Published: February 9, 2009

MANCHESTER The Orvis Outlet Store has become a showcase for one of Efficiency Vermont's latest energy-conservation experiments: Light-emitting diode lamps for retail stores.

Orvis personnel replaced about 300 lamps in the outlet store last summer. According to the company, the store has used 8,400 fewer kilowatt hours a month, which has saved almost $900 a month in electricity.

The LED lights are cooler than incandescent lights so the store also saved on air-conditioning costs.

Charles Clerici, with Efficiency Vermont's business development services, said his group and Orvis, which has its headquarters in Sunderland and flagship store in Manchester, had determined last year that the project would provide enough energy savings that Efficiency Vermont could subsidize about half the installation costs.

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Source: New York Times
http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20090209/NEWS02/902090360/1003/NEWS02

Most homeowners have a general sense of whether or not they are being energy efficient, a hunch confirmed or disproved when the monthly bills arrive. But occupants of a prefabricated house designed by Kaplan Thompson Architects, a firm in Portland, Me., will receive real-time feedback through a system Phil Kaplan, one of the architects, describes as an update on the mood ring.

The super-insulated, solar-heated BrightBuilt Barn is equipped with a device that analyzes electricity use and communicates that data to a skirt of LEDs affixed to the base of the home's exterior. If the house is on track to create more energy than it uses, the lights turn green; yellow is a borderline condition, and red means the owners should shut off appliances or turn down the heat. [READ MORE]

Source: New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/15/garden/15tools.html?_r=2&ref=garden

Bill Stauffer and Mark Shoemaker are not engineers. They're not inventors. They didn't even study science in college Stauffer majored in Chinese studies and Shoemaker studied economics. But they are possibly on the verge of becoming successful entrepreneurs by selling the latest, and many say the greatest, light bulb technology since Thomas Edison invented his world-changing incandescent bulb in 1879. [Read More]

Source: Maine Biz
http://www.mainebiz.biz/news43357.html?Type=search

Focus on Lighting from CFLs to LEDs and beyond November 13, 2 p.m. Eastern presented by Eco-Story Richard Young of the Food Service Technology Center is back following Conserve's first webinar and education session at NRA Show 2008, 5 Things an Operator Must Know About Energy Efficiency, to present the benefits of selecting the right energy-efficient lighting for your restaurant. Innovations in lighting technology are continually introduced and it can be hard to keep up, but Mark Shoemaker of Eco-Story will explain the finer points of new lighting technologies and will give us peek into the future of lighting for the restaurant industry. In addition, Scott Shippey will anchor this webinar by sharing results from Chipotle's new lighting initiative.

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Source: National Restaurant Association
http://www.restaurant.org/pressroom/pressrelease.cfm?ID=1685

Hot food, cool lighting

The Chipotle Mexican Grill opening at the Mall of America today is the chain's first restaurant designed with energy-saving LED lighting technology from the beginning.

Chipotle design director Scott Shippey said the chain in November 2007 began working with Eco-Story, a manufacturer of next-generation LED (light-emitting diode) lighting, which uses a fraction of the energy of incandescent options.

"They finally cracked the formula to use LED lighting in dining and retail situations," Shippey said. Eco-Story developed a five-watt LED lamp for Chipotle that mimicked the distinctive look of Chipotle's standard 50-watt light bulb. Each Chipotle restaurant might use 40 to 60 of those $4 incandescent bulbs. The new LED bulbs cost $35, but they are expected to last six to eight years before the light quality dims and they need replacement. Shippey says a Denver restaurant that was retrofitted with the new lights expects to save $900 to $1,000 a year on electricity. The return on investment in the new lights is about 12 months.
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Source: StarTribune.com, Minneapolis St.Paul, Minnesota
http://www.startribune.com/business/26153554.html?location_refer=Busines

Eco-story is pleased to announce UL (Underwriters Laboratory) approval on several of our core high power LED lights. While the UL approval and certification process is expensive and cumbersome Eco-story strongly believes that by completing this process our LED lights are manufactured to a higher quality standard and much safer for consumer and commercial use. During the UL process Eco-story upgraded many component parts in order to meet the rigid demands of UL specifications.

These incentives can drastically cut the cost of installing LED lights and improve a customers ROI. For more information about these rebates please contact Efficiency Vermont at 888-921-5990.

The Energy Policy Act of 2005 created the Energy Efficient Commercial Buildings Deduction, which allows building owners to deduct the entire cost of a lighting or building upgrade in the year the equipment is placed in service, subject to a cap. This website, developed by the Lighting Systems Division of the National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) in cooperation with the Commercial Building Tax Deduction Coalition, provides education about the lighting aspects of the Deduction and resources to help with its implementation. It was created as the first of a series of lighting education initiatives by the lighting industry addressing lighting quality and efficiency.

Cities can save energy and money by illuminating public spaces with LEDs, or light-emitting diodes. Last December Raleigh, N.C., turned one floor of a municipal parking garage into a testing ground for LEDs (see the before-and-after photos at http://www.cree.com/LEDcity). The new white, brighter fixtures use 40% less electricity than the high-pressure sodium bulbs they replaced. Although they cost two to three times as much, they can go five or more years without upkeep. Traditional bulbs must be replaced every 18 months. Other types of LEDs are already at work in traffic lights, outdoor displays (like those in New York City's Times Square) and stadiums; airports even use LEDs on their taxiways. If your city is still burning tax money on old lights, ask the mayor why.