Tuesday, November 2, 2010

Sustainable Las Vegas?

You may be wondering what is wrong with that title? Do those words go together at all? For Las Vegas Sands, the company that owns the Venetian and Palazzo hotels with over 7000 combined hotel rooms it does mean something. This morning I read an article from a weekly gaming email I have received for over 9 years now, the Casino City Times. The article is titled Top-10 Ways Las Vegas Sands is Going Green.

No picture in this post but here are a couple of cool stats from the piece. The combined building space of the two hotels and the Sands Expo Center total over 17 million square feet of space making this the largest LEED certified "green" building in the world! WOW, that is pretty cool.

They also have some other very cool ways that they are going green like having their own energy efficient light bulbs designed. What? Yes, they weren't satisfied with the existing energy efficient light bulbs so they designed new ones to meet their needs. Who does that?

OK, overall I thought it was a fun article.

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