Green At Christmas

For New Yorkers, the Christmas holiday season begins with the unveiling of the Christmas tree at Rockefeller Center. This season is no exception; however, the iconic Christmas tree has taken on more meaning by symbolizing the awareness of environmental consciousness.

The green initiatives demonstrated in this year’s Tree include installing an Ice Storage plant that will reduce energy used during peak periods and is powered by energy purchased from wind generated facilities, using 30,000 LED energy-saving bulbs to light up the Tree and hand cutting the tree in order to reduce energy use. The equivalent of all these green practices is equal to removing over 300 cars off the road each year or planting 450 acres of trees.

The Rockefeller Center Christmas Tree isn’t the first to use ice as a cooling system. The idea of using blocks of ice to cool rooms can be traced back to the 1800’s when a Floridian physician blew air over buckets of ice to cool hospital rooms.

Looking for green technology sometimes means looking back rather than forward and taking the time to find the efficiencies that history has to offer.

What could be more fitting than the world’s most famous evergreen symbolizing the Christmas season and environmental awareness?

Written by Sarah Little, TQA Director

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