New York Gets Green For The Holidays (Barf)

cinemablend ^ | 11/19/07 | Rafe Telsch

[TornadoAlley3]

It’s cool to be “Green” right now. NBC devoted a week of programming gimmicks to being “Green,” with recycling and environmental efforts taking over some part of all of their hit shows. Meanwhile, Al Gore won a Nobel Peace Prize and Overture studios shipped out sapling trees with their fall preview kits. Just two signs we’ve seen in the last few weeks that being environmentally conscious is suddenly the right place to be.

New York City is following in the trend this year with their oversized Christmas tree. The Rockefeller Center perennial will use LED lighting (light emitting diodes) to light up the tree, resulting in a savings equivalent to the average family’s monthly electricity bill. For those counting, that’s over 30,000 LEDs on a 5-mile string of wire according to CNet.

The Green effort doesn’t stop with just the LED lighting, however. Next year, Rockefeller Center, which already has the largest collection of solar-electric panels in New York City, will have a green roof and ice chillers installed. The green roof uses desert plantings that act as a form of insulation while reducing waste-water runoff. The ice chillers provide a more efficient means of cooling the building. Meanwhile, this year’s efforts go all the way back to the harvesting of the tree, which was cut down with a handsaw instead of a chainsaw, eliminating air pollution byproduct.

[TornadoAlley3]

Meanwhile, this year’s efforts go all the way back to the harvesting of the tree, which was cut down with a handsaw instead of a chainsaw, eliminating air pollution byproduct.

[GnuHere]

Cutting down an 84 ft tree by hand - good use of manpower, eh? wonder how long that took. I have harvested a Christmas tree with a handsaw as a kid, but I admit it was probably 5 ft tall...

[Minnesoootan]

Uh,yah...ok then...the amount of C-oh-2 emitted by the huffing handsawer was probably equivalent to me with my Stihl wacking it down in 30seconds.

[Minnesoootan]

OK,lets go further....what was the amount of energy involved to produce the handsaw? tensiled steel,sharpening,marketing,shipment....ack,I give up!

[JeffChrz]

Personally, I think the writers’ strike will do more for the environment than anything that NBC did during its “Go Green” week. No power going into or waste coming out of TV production for how many weeks now?

[EGPWS]

The Rockefeller Center perennial will use LED lighting (light emitting diodes) to light up the tree, resulting in a savings equivalent to the average family’s monthly electricity bill. For those counting, that’s over 30,000 LEDs on a 5-mile string of wire according to CNet.

I'm going from the "miniature lights" to flood lights painted to my personal taste in color via a paint spray can and I am going to circle saw my own 2X4's for support for the branches and paint them via spray can a lovely forest green for effect.
For the times that I am busy running my snow blower, dishwasher, electric range or watching my HTS and just for my own peace of mind I am going to buy "The Clapper" just to make sure I do my part in saving us from the destruction of everything good that humankind has bestowed upon this planet.

I'm devoted to the cause. /s