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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Contact: Renee Miller GREENLITE GIVEAWAY LIGHTS UP MICROSOFT CAFES February
28th -Thursday, Greenlite Lighting Corporation will give away 32,000
Compact Fluorescent Light (CFL) bulbs to Microsoft employees on the company’s
Redmond Campus. The giveaway
will take place at various Microsoft Cafes. Huge boxes of the environmentally progressive CFLs have
already been delivered in anticipation of employees lining up for the
energy-saving bulbs. The
“Greenlite” giveaway is the brainchild of Microsoft managers Rafferty Lengle
and Josh Henretig. Lengle and
Henretig have been meeting regularly to brainstorm entrepreneurial ideas and
industry innovations for several years.
They had both been reading about CFLs and immediately recognized how
getting a large group to switch a few CFLs for their old incandescent bulbs
would pack a significant earth-saving punch. “People
can get behind CFLs because they are a simple solution whose benefits impact
not only the environment, but people’s wallets as well. My hope is that we demystify the CFL
so people can let those benefits sink in,” said Henretig. “Who
doesn’t want to save on their electric bill and decrease their carbon
footprint? It starts with a four
pack of CFLs, but we don’t want people to stop there; we want this event to
serve as a catalyst to replace as many incandescent bulbs with CFLs as possible. When you think about entire
households making the switch..the benefits are mind blowing,” said Lengle. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), one CFL can save the world more than 450 pounds of emissions from a power plant over its lifetime. Lengle
and Henretig networked within Microsoft to see if staging a CFL giveaway on
campus would be possible. With
Microsoft providing the venue, the Microsoft managers reached out to
Greenlite Lighting Corporation’s Director of Sales Tom Cohen, who
enthusiastically agreed to supply the bulbs. The group partnered with Puget Sound Energy, and Snohomish
County PUD to stage a mass dispersal of four packs of CFLs. “Josh
and Rafferty possess entrepreneurial spirit with an environmental
conscience. My mission and my
company’s mission have always extended beyond selling a product. Greenlite wants to raise public
awareness about reducing global emissions and how CFLs can play a role in
that. We can save the earth and
some money too…one bulb at a time,” said Greenlite CEO and President Nina
Gupta. #### For more information on Greenlite Lighting
Corporation, visit www.greenliteusa.com For media inquiries, or to schedule an
interview, please contact Renee Miller,
The Miller Group, (310) 442-0101 ### |
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