Hollywood Lighting Services - August 13, 2008
• Hollywood Lighting Services recently received the City of Portland’s “Recycleworks” award, a certification that recognizes our commitment to sustainable, earth-friendly operations. RecycleWorks award winners commit to going beyond recycling with activities that range from reducing paper use, purchasing at least 30 percent post-consumer recycled paper, using durable dishware, buying sustainable wind-generated power, and offering personal greening assistance to employees.
Hollywood Lighting Services has committed not only to the minumum requirements for this award, but have gone above and beyond by:
√ Using 100% recycled paper products and soy inks for many of our printings
√ Recycling 14 different types of materials (and counting)
√ Offering a free lamp-recycling program to our clients
√ Using earth-friendly cleaning products
√ Reducing internal electrical usage
√ Aggressively reducing waste through junk-mail reduction programs
And perhaps most importantly, HLS offers a robust line of Low Energy Lighting Alternatives, featuring the latest LED, HID, and CFL technologies.
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• Hollywood Lighting continues to offer the latest in low-energy lighting alternatives for commercial and residential installations. Featuring the all new, cutting edge white-LED technology, we are the first to introduce the Go-FLL flat panel fixtures, designed for smooth, pleasing lighting in recessed, suspended, or pendant mount environments. These amazing panels will cut your energy use by a minimum of 35%, use no mercury, are nearly unbreakable, and will give you 8 to 15 years of service without the need to change bulbs or ballasts. Flicker free operation, many size and shape options, wireless remote control, dimmability, and optional color temperature adjustment make the Go-FLL line a shoe in for many applications. We have four models in our showroom and we love to show them off!
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• Hollywood Lighting’s Production team continues to amaze with a busy summer! Just recently, we’ve been tapped to design and produce many creative lighting environments for events all over the West. Some of the highlights include: Several product rolllouts and large parties for Nike, the Special Olympics opening ceremonies, Festivals like The Bite, Fort Vancouver 4th of July, and Rose Festival, Sportfight XIII, the MPI awards banquet, a splashy party for Lexis Nexis at the OCC, and (we’re guessing) at least our 50th Nordstrom runway event–both in Seattle and Portland. We’ve lit dinosaurs and airplanes, banjo players and software developers, brides and pro golfers….and everything in between!
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• Dwayne Thomas, president of Hollywood Lighting Services, has been busy with a few extra curricular industry activities this summer. In addition to serving on the ISES Portland Board of Directors (Programs and Education Committee), Dwayne has been tapped to serve as Chair of the A/V and Production Committee on the CIC/APEX Green Meeting and Event Practices Panel. This panel will be constructing a comprehensive set of best-practices and standards for sustainability in the events industry that will ultimately be presented to the US Environmental Protection Agency for ratification and adoption nationwide. Additionally, Dwayne has joined the Editorial Advisory Board of Northwest Meetings and Events Magazine.
