Retrofitting in Clinton Foundations offices Harlem

Extract from website Clinton Foundation

The Dutch Postcode Lottery, in conjuncture with Lemnis Lighting, will realize the retrofit of the Clinton Foundation’s Harlem office with LED lighting during the summer of 2010. Lemnis Lighting previously partnered with the Dutch Postcode Lottery to promote broad use of LED lighting in the Netherlands.

President Clinton with Boudewijn Poelmann and Marieke van Schaik

This project is the result of a meeting in 2006 with President Clinton and the Dutch Postcode Lottery in which this sustainable lighting alternative was introduced and the foundation was laid for the boost of LED technology in the Netherlands in 2009. Since that meeting the Dutch Postcode Lottery has also made a commitment at the Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in 2008, in partnership with WWF Netherlands, to boost LED technology in the Netherlands by giving 2.5 million lottery participating households a Pharox LED light bulb. These LED lamps use only 10 percent of the electricity that incandescent lamps use, do not contain toxic mercury, and will last for 25 years on average.

More than 1.6 million Dutch households have collected their LED lamp. The direct impact of replacing inefficient lamps by these LED ones is a reduction of more than 73.000 ton CO2 per year. The broad multimedia attention resulted in an industry shift around lighting, and the awareness within the public that LED lighting is a solution for energy efficient lighting without losing quality.