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ASPEN — The Aspen Skiing Co. has seen the light, and it’s not given off by incandescent bulbs.
The Skico approved a policy this winter that calls for incandescent lights in all its facilities to be eliminated and replaced by the end of 2011, Auden Schendler, vice president of sustainability said Monday.
Incandescent bulbs — the standard old light bulb most people are familiar with — aren’t as energy efficient as alternatives such as compact fluorescent (CFL) and light-emitting diodes (LED) lighting.
“It’s a space heater that happens to give off light,” Schendler said of the old bulbs.
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