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The Savannah Tribune • Wednesday, June 10, 2009 - 9
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Civil Rights Museum Becoming
More Energy Efficient
The Ralph Mark
Gilbert Civil Rights
Museum is green-light
ing an effort to improve
energy efficiency and
reduce its carbon foot
print by working with
Savannah lighting tech
nology company
PureSpectrum, Inc. to
replace or retrofit all of
the museum's lighting
fixtures with energy
efficient lighting prod
ucts.
PureSpectrum has
agreed to donate and install
PureSpectrum's dimmable
Compact Fluorescent Lamps
(CFL) and retrofit all of the
museum's linear fluorescent
lighting fixtures with
PureSpectrum's innovative
dimmable electronic ballasts.
The $20,000 gift of
energy efficient lighting will
enable the museum to take
advantage of energy conser
vation strategies such as day
light harvesting and occu
pancy sensing, substantially
reducing the building's ener
gy usage and lowering annu
al electricity costs by an esti
mated $7,000.
The museum, recently
designated the official
Georgia historical civil rights
museum by Governor Sonny
Perdue, hosted a press con
ference at 1 p.m. on June 4 to
discuss the benefits of the
transition to energy efficient
lighting and a reception on
June 4 beginning at 5:30 p.m.
to celebrate PureSpectrum's
The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil
Rights Museum is located on
ML King and Alice Streets.
generous gift.
The installation of dim
mable CFLs will take place
this summer, and the ballast
retrofit will be performed
later this year by Rushing
Electric under
PureSpectrum's direction.
By replacing existing
incandescent bulbs with
PureSpectrum's 20-watt
CFLs throughout the build
ing, the museum will realize a
reduction of more than 75%
in energy consumption, and
the museum will immediately
realize about a 35% reduction
in energy use by replacing
antiquated, inefficient T12
linear fluorescent lamps with
PureSpectrum's dimming
enabled T8 ballast.
Additionally, because
all of PureSpectrum's prod
ucts are dimming enabled, the
museum will be able to con
sider further upgrading its
energy conservation plan
through utilizing green
lighting strategies such
as daylight harvesting
and occupancy sensors
where applicable.
Although there would
be an additional cost to
implement dimming
systems, the installation
of dimmers and timers
and remote photocell
sensors would result in
substantially increased
energy and cost savings.
“During these times of
increasing energy costs and
an urgent need to reduce
energy usage, PureSpectrum
is providing us with solutions
that will drastically reduce
energy costs and energy
usage,” said J.W. Jamerson,
III, D.D.S., chairman of the
Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil
Rights Museum board of
directors. “The museum has
been searching for cost effec
tive ways to implement an
energy conservation strategy,
and this donation from
PureSpectrum is an answer
to our prayers. We are very
grateful that PureSpectrum
has agreed to donate not only
their state of the art lighting
products but also has agreed
to manage the installation
being performed by Rushing
Electric.”
PureSpectrum launched
its product line of dimmable
CFLs in May at LightFair
International in New York
and is negotiating domestic
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Goodwill Industries
Bill Oakley, CEO, Goodwill Industries, (far right) is pictured with Joe Driggers, (far
left), Director of Development and Marketing and the celebrity wait staff.
Chick-Fil-A at
Savannah Mall, 14045
Abercom Street hosedt a
“Spirit Night” and Celebrity
Wait Staff Competition in
which proceeds benefited
Goodwill Industries on
TuesdayMay 19, 2009.
Chick-Fil-A will donate 15%
of all sales during that time
to Goodwill Industries.
The event also included
a donation drive for clothing,
books and computers.
All customers who
made a donation received a
coupon for a FREE chick-fil-
a sandwich.
The evening will also
includeed a local celebrity
wait staff competition
Celebrities included
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