Author Archives: Mother Earth

Energy Saving Tips – Outdoor Lighting

July 28, 2009 – 10:09 am

The LED light bulb is being called, “a new kind of light”. This lamp is guaranteed to offer better lumen quality than a standard incandescent bulb, it’s been proven to last 25 times longer and it uses less energy than incandescent and 5 x longer than CFL lamps.

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Indoor Growing Can Be A Family Affair

June 20, 2009 – 3:23 pm

An indoor garden can bring all of the members of your family together from the toddlers to the older members of the family. The only you thing you need is a growing light and some tender loving care.

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Save Energy By Using CFL’s

June 9, 2009 – 3:15 am

Replacing the incandescent light bulbs in your home with compact fluorescent light bulbs is a wonderful and easy way for you to save energy and help the environment at the same time. In this day and age of “green” thinking, these light bulbs just make sense.

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Growing Indoors can be Fun for Kids

May 28, 2009 – 5:10 am

Indoor growing is a great way to educate kids  about plants and living a healthy lifestyle. There are a lot fun activities they can do indoors and learn if they have a green thumb. Indoor gardening projects for children are also useful to keep them busy during cold months when outdoor growing is not possible. Growing plants is an activity they do all year long. Tomatoes and lettuce are healthy ingredients in sandwiches and salad. Growing lettuce and tomatoes indoors is easy and also keeps child Finish Reading this Post

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How to know when your HPS Bulb is bad

May 26, 2009 – 12:21 am

Due to the life span of sodium, light bulbs using high pressure sodium light bulbs should be started at a low voltage level, but as they start to warm up, the internal gas pressure located inside the arc tube starts to go up and at that time more voltage is needed if you want to maintain the arc discharge. Like everything else in life the HPS bulb is going to get older and loose its effectiveness. When a high pressure sodium light bulbs starts getting older you will notice that maintaining the v Finish Reading this Post

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