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extract from a
Bellmore Herald Article
by Nancy Hiler
"Underscoring the festival's new environmentally
friendly focus, Long Island green businesses served
as festival sponsors, creating an interesting and
educational Green Expo area at the festival this
year.
"The businesses that were part of this area have
shown that they are dedicated to reducing the carbon
footprint of their business as well as the clients
they serve," Seth Meyerowitz said.
The festival's Green Expo Title sponsor was East
Meadow-based
Alure Home
Improvement, a
leading home remodeling company and partner in the
"Green Levittown" initiative. The company provides
home performance energy audits and other innovative
green services.
"We offer the first green kitchen with ice stone
countertops, made of cement and recycled glass,"
explained marketing spokeswoman Lisa Barone. The
company also offered information about a variety of
other energy efficiency services they provide,
including Energy Star product recommendations and
Owens-Corning insulation products.
Another sponsor, Freeport-based Chief Equipment,
Inc. created a bit of a stir with its battery
powered "Auto mower," a lawn mower that moved across
a side area of the fair grounds on its own. Two
models were demonstrated, recharged automatically at
either a plugged in electric base station or through
a solar panel on top.
At their exhibit, representatives from the solar
energy green sponsor Bellmore/Wantagh-based Built
Well Solar Corp. answered fairgoers' questions about
solar-electric, solar hot water and solar pool
heating systems for homes and businesses, and
distributed free sun-yellow, biodegradable balloons.
"Being that this is my hometown, and I went to
Jerusalem Avenue School right here when it was still
a junior high, I was proud to be a sponsor," said
Built Well Solar's founder/owner Dan Sabia. "And we
were happy to see a thousand smiles on the faces of
the little kids we gave balloons out to." Another
sponsor, Island Park-based Empower CES offered
information about solar-electric systems.
Another "green" sponsor was Farmingdale-based
Renewal By Andersen, a division of Andersen Windows,
the only replacement window manufacturer to receive
Green Seal Certification for Environmental
Stewardship. Company representatives were on hand to
explain the energy-saving benefits of its
replacement windows, which are manufactured with
minimal environmental impact. Melville-based
Infinity Windows of Long Island, which offers energy
efficient replacement windows and doors, was another
sponsor at the festival.
"This is what our clubs are all about," Bellmore
Kiwanis Club president John Monks said, "improving
the communities that we live in and helping the
members of those communities."
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