Casting business in a new light
Register Pajaronian
Posted: Saturday, Oct 20th, 2007
BY: ROGER SIDEMAN
Doug Petersen of Watsonville Coast Produce knows he’s helping save the planet, and that’s a good thing, he says. But in the eyes of his co-owners, changes that are afoot at the company never would have passed muster if they weren’t also saving a lot of cash.
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Progressive Lighting & Energy Solutions Slashes Cow Palace's Annual Energy Costs by Nearly $240,000
Source: Progressive Lighting & Energy Solutions Inc.
Thursday October 4, 3:19 pm ET
California's "Green" Light Provider and Ecology Action Team Up to Roll Out RightLights Program at Historic Venue in San Francisco to Help Reduce Pollution and Introduce New Lighting Technologies.
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Flipping the switch on expensive energy
Santa Cruz Sentinel
By JOANNE SANCHEZ
Sentinel staff writer
Santa Cruz, CA (June 13, 2005) - Carrying a ladder almost twice her size, you might recognize the petite Carolina Raciti walking downtown.
At 5 feet 2 inches, Raciti is a spirited lighting specialist for RightLights, a Santa Cruz-based nonprofit that visits local businesses to help improve their energy efficiency.
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Program helps cut utility costs
By Tim Simmers, BUSINESS WRITER
Inside Bay Area
MENLO PARK (April 29, 2005)- THE PUBLISHER of Sunset Magazine has long promoted energy efficiency in its magazine articles about homes. But the company on Friday just flipped the switch on its own new low-cost, energy-efficient lighting system as part of an Earth Day celebration.
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Ecology Action Receives GEELA Award
Press Release
Santa Cruz, CA (June 29, 2004) - Ecology Action of Santa Cruz received the Governor’s Environmental and Economic Leadership Award in Sacramento on December 1, 2003. This award acknowledges Ecology Action’s success over the last 33 years as a valuable collaborator with communities and businesses throughout California.
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Local
Power efficiency program serves as model for California
The Santa Cruz Sentinel
Santa Cruz, CA (March 22, 2003) –
If other cities statewide modeled a small business lighting
efficiency program begun in Santa Cruz, there would be little
need to build more peaker power plants like the one proposed
in Pajaro last year, according to state Public Utilities Commissioner
Loretta Lynch.
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Program helps save power expenses
| Small Central Coast businesses
are eligible |
By Glenn Cravens
The Californian
Small businesses on the Central Coast can benefit from a program
that will help them conserve energy and lower their utility
bills. On Friday, Ecology Action, a Santa Cruz-based nonprofit
organization, launched RightLights, a $1.9 million program
to help businesses with 10 or fewer employees buy more efficient
lighting.
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School District Updates Lighting, Slashes
Utility Bills While Helping Students
| Improved lighting expected
to aid learning; upgrades subsidized by RightLights Program |
MONTEREY, CA (February 24, 2003) –
In a combined effort to slash utility costs and improve student
performance, the Monterey Peninsula Unified School District
recently implemented a district-wide retrofit of the lighting
systems in its buildings.
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Local Nonprofit Helps Small Businesses
Slash Lighting Bills
| Subsidized upgrades, free
services for small commercial utility customers in Tri-Counties |
SANTA CRUZ, CA (November 4, 2002) –
Ecology Action, a Santa Cruz-based nonprofit, has been awarded
a $1.9 million dollar publicly-funded contract designed to
help small businesses in Santa Cruz, Monterey, and San Benito
Counties to obtain major energy cost reductions by updating
their inefficient lighting systems.
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