With Thanksgiving looming only a day away, and copious amounts of turkey, stuffing, poatotes, countless desserts, and a nice cool beer or two awaiting us, some may be wondering what holiday fun will be on the agenda in and around Chicago to keep the family busy. Once your tryptophan induced coma has subsided, you can…
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GreenChill awards Whole Foods for their GREEN Refrigeration Efforts
Whole Foods Receives GreenChill Award for its GREEN Efforts Northeast Cooling is thrilled to see several major retail grocery chains, not only participating in the Environmental Protection Agency’s GreenChill Partnership, but receiving awards for their commitment to the program. GreenChill was launched in November of 2007 as a response to the phase-out of ozone…
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Freeaire® Changing the face of Commercial Refrigeration for the Greener
“Freeaire® – Save Energy, Save Money. Save Maintenance. Save the Planet.” We like everything about that slogan! We’ve just discovered Freeaire® and it looks to be an innovative way to create an amazingly efficient Green Commercial Refrigeration system. Freeaire®’s systems create energy efficient ways to provide retail and commercial refrigeration utilizing natural weather patterns. Saving you money…
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Downtown Dash: Meet Northeast Cooling’s own Team Two Cool
Meet Team Two Cool sponsored by Northeast Cooling Poised and Ready to win Downtown Dash Team Two Cool is headed by Captain Apryl Valy (@princessv13) and supported by her loyal and at-the-ready teammate, Nicole Marsel (@nikole17). They both have a strong Social Media presence and are ready, willing, and able to rock through the Downtown Dash and…
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Storms Wreak Havoc Northeast Cooling Saves the Day!
Severe storms and extreme temperatures have wreaked havoc among homeowners and businesses alike across the Chicagoland and Milwaukee areas in the past two weeks. Northeast Cooling knows firsthand how nerve-wracking and frustrating outages and overworked equipment can be for those that depend upon them for their livelihood. Last Saturday around 10 PM, we received a call…
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Unlikely Bedfellows: Gist, Social Media, and Commercial Refrigeration
Recently we were honored and excited to be mentioned once again in a post by the amazing people at Gist! We were also proud to be mentioned in the company of Chicago’s own @Leyla_A and @NicoleYeary: awesome people and amazing users of social media as a professional tool. Check out the guest post by Greg…
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EPA Helps Businesses Transition to GREEN Practices with GreenChill!
GreenChill Advanced Refrigeration Partnership is a program recently introduced by the EPA to assist those in the hospitality industry by alleviating the guesswork in making the transition to more environmentally friendly refrigerants in the upcoming years. The EPA describes GreenChill as an “EPA Partnership with food retailers to reduce refrigerant emissions and decrease their impact on the ozone layer…
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Think Your Commercial Ice Machine Is Clean? Think Again!
They look innocuous enough. Just sitting there waiting to quench our thirst and cool our beverages any time we need them. We grab the provided cup, put it under the ice dispenser, then fill up with our desired beverage. Simple. Easy. No worries. Right? We all take soda machines, and commercial ice machines in general,…
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Carbon Dioxide Refrigerant Makes a GREEN Comeback
Over 100 years of Carbon Dioxide as a Refrigerant? CO2 was the refrigerant of choice during the early 20th century but was later replaced with man-made chemicals. In light of environmental concerns carbon dioxide is making a return appearance. Thanks to technological advances that include the manufacture of extremely thin yet strong aluminum tubing carbon…
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Einstein Takes Refrigeration Green
Would you believe that in 1930 Albert Einstein invented, and patented, a refrigeration system that uses ammonia, butane, and water instead of environmentally damaging Freon gases? This invention uses no electricity, has no moving parts, and could reduce greenhouse gases if replicated today! IS THIS TRUE? It seems many people are not even aware that…
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