What are sustainable products?

Sustainable products are those products providing environmental, social and economic benefits while protecting public health, welfare, and environment over their full commercial cycle, from the extraction of raw materials to final disposition. Using transparent, consensus, and life cycle based metrics can help identify sustainable products.

How does sustainable development and sustainability impact buildings?

Consider that non-residential buildings in the United States consume 30–40% of the nations energy, including 60% of all electricity. They also produce 30–40% of atmospheric emissions. These structures use 25% of all water, take up 35–40% of municipal solid waste stream and use between 25–30% of all wood and materials.1

Environmentally Responsible Lighting

Philips is a global leader in green designed products and practices, in fact Philips has been chosen by the Dow Jones Sustainable Index (which measures environmental responsible products and practices), as the leader in their category for the last 3 years.

Step 1 - Review your current lighting solutions

Step 2 - Review your options


There are several environmental lamp selections you can make to take the first steps toward sustainable lighting improvements:

• Choose the most energy efficient lamp type
• Electricity represents over 80% of the total lighting costs and is a major cost for doing business for any organization. Annual savings of $.10-$.25 per square foot of office space are available by applying current technology -even to recently installed or upgraded lighting systems
• Choose the longest lasting lamps as long life equates to lower maintenance costs
• Choose the Alto “source reducing – low mercury” lamps with the green end caps
• The Philips Family of Linear Fluorescent, Compact Fluorescent, and MasterColor Metal Halide lamps all feature Alto Lamp Technology, which reduces the amount of mercury by over 50% compared to standard lamps.
• Sustainable Lighting Index Calculator. See the Philips difference as a leading eco-efficient company in the lighting industry. To determine the environmental savings for your entire facility, go to: http://www.nam.lighting.philips.com/us/pro_lighting/sli_index.php
• Properly recycle all lamps at end of life

Step 3 - Replace your lamps and calculate your savings!


For more information about Philips’ products, visit us on-line at www.philips.com.