Walmart & Clinton Climate Initiative Announce Partnership
At the 2007 U.S. Conference of Mayors Climate Protection Summit, President Bill Clinton announced a new partnership between the Clinton Climate Initiative and Walmart In order to help bring environmentally friendly technologies to cities across the United States and around the world, the two groups will explore ways to use their purchasing resources to lower prices on sustainable technologies, such as energy efficient building materials and systems, energy efficient lighting and clean energy products. In addition, the groups will collaborate to design and discover new products and best practices related to energy technologies and continue to look for new ways to work together. One of the technologies the partnership will explore is energy efficient, high performance LED lights for parking lots and street lamps. By switching to LEDs, Walmart estimates that cities could save 50 percent on street lamp energy consumption and reduce maintenance costs by 80 percent. Additional technologies to be explored may include interior LED lighting, variable-speed heating, ventilation and air conditioning technology (HVAC) and solar power purchases.
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