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December 18. 2013
ZooLights gets Greener and Brighter
Holiday
tradition
features a
million LEDs
ZooLights is both brighter and
greener this year.
Since 2000, the Oregon Zoo has
been upgrading its spectacular holi
day light display with an eye to the
future— gradually switching from
conventional incandescent lights
to highly efficient LEDs, which
use a fraction of the energy and last
far longer.
This year’s ZooLights, presented
by Toyota with support from The
Boeing Company, adds even more
new diodes, adding up to more
than a million LEDs out of the
nearly 1.5 million lights on display.
LEDs use about 10 to 25 percent
o f the power of standard holiday
lights. With an expected life o f at
least 25,000 hours — 20 times that
o f conventional light strings— this
year’s new lights could last for
PHOTO BY SHERVIN H ESS
ZooLights has upgraded more than a million lights to energy-efficient LEDs. The Oregon Zoo’s popular holiday light display runs
through Jan. 5 at the zoo.
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11140 SE Powell Blvd
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another quarter-century or beyond.
“E v ery y e a r w e ’re m ak in g
ZooLights more sustainable for the
next generation o f visitors,” said
event coordinator Russell Guinn,
w ho has overseen the seasonal
spectacle since 1992. “The spar
kling LEDs that kids are enjoying
this year could still be glowing
when they bring their own kids to
enjoy ZooLights years from now.”
T he Z o o L ig h ts visit has b e
com e a fav o rite holiday tra d i
tion w ith its life-size anim al sil
h o u ettes, m oving sculptures and
fo re sts o f lig h te d trees. T h is
y e a r’s d isp lay has a co n tin u o u s
lo o p aro u n d the zoo th ro u g h
areas th at h a v e n ’t been lit up
b e fo re . O ne sp e c ta c u la r new
s e c tio n in th e z o o ’s A fric a
R ain fo rest a rea featu res a tw ist
ing 1 00-foot-long rain b o w -c o l
o red tu n n el o f light.
Z o o L ig h ts ho u rs are 5-8 p.m .
S u n d ay through T h u rsd ay , and
5 -8 :3 0 p.m . F rid ay through S a t
urday. Z o o L ig h ts w ill be clo sed
D ec. 24-25 and then co n tin u e
th ro u g h Jan. 5. A dm ission is
$10 fo r ad u lts, $8.50 fo r se
n io rs, $7 fo r ch ild ren and free
fo r ch ild ren 2 and under.