Category Archives: General Home Energy Tips

This Holiday, Going Green is Saving Green

August 2, 2009 – 9:19 pm

Households and businesses around the country celebrate the holidays with a decoration that is at once tacky and charming: Christmas lights. Their colors are synonymous with good cheer and revelry, which many business owners believe also translates into higher sales. But standard incandescent lights can be costly to buy, run, and replace. For all their advantages in spreading cheer, it seems there are few economic advantages to the light unless they directly translate into a sale or nice big gift Finish Reading this Post

By TT5Rt78 | Tagged LED Christmas lights, LED Holiday Lights, replacement light bulb | Comments (0)

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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Testing Your Emergency Lights

July 12, 2009 – 9:05 am

Emergency lighting is required by law to be in different buildings and can be found in corridors, stairwells, aisles, ramps, exit passageways and even escalators.

By mprough | Tagged Emergency Lights, exit sign, halogen emergency lighting, testing exit signs | Comments (0)

Are Colorful Lights Worth the Expense ?

July 5, 2009 – 9:21 pm

With incomes down this year and the holidays not too far away, many will surely wonder whether the kitsch delight of holiday lights is worth the expense of buying, running, and replacing them. In a word, for all but the most glitzy businesses, the answer is probably no. Incandescent light strings are expensive to buy, easily broken, consume inordinate amounts of power, and need to be replaced often as bulbs break or brightness fades. The cost, in addition to the safety concerns that are warrante Finish Reading this Post

By TT5Rt78 | Tagged Halogen Light Bulbs, LED Christmas lights, LED Holiday Lights | Comments (0)

Light Bulbs: Environmental Savior

June 29, 2009 – 4:39 am

Saving our environment is on everyone’s mind. One of the best ways to do that is to save energy. A very small item in our home can waste a great deal of energy every day. That small item is a light bulb.

By Get Green | Tagged cfl light bulbs, energy saving bulbs, energy saving lighting, energy saving tips, halogen bulbs, LED bulbs | Comments (0)

How to Go Green with Eco-Friendly Light Bulbs

June 24, 2009 – 3:24 pm

Going green is on everyone’s mind and we all try to figure out the best way to do it. Changing all of your normal incandescent light bulbs to low energy light bulbs is a huge step in going green and saving energy.

By Get Green | Tagged cfl, energy saving, halogen, Light Bulb Basics | Comments (0)

Energy Saving Tips for the Kitchen

June 16, 2009 – 2:26 am

I’ve done some research on ways to save energy and have prepared a list for you containing the energy saving tips for the kitchen I came across. I’m sure you’ll find them quite useful and most importantly they’ll help you save money and energy! If you don’t have one, get a high efficiency dishwasher. You can get one at any home improvement store. Department stores carry them or buy one online. High efficiency dishwashers use a lot less water than hand washing dishes; they mean Finish Reading this Post

By Incon | Tagged energy saving dishwashers, home energy tips, lowering power bill | Comments (0)

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.

By Mother Earth | Also posted in cfl light bulbs | Tagged cfl, Compact Fluorescent Light, energy star, Light Bulb Basics, save energy | Comments (0)

LED Grow Lights for your Gardening Needs

April 3, 2009 – 8:00 pm

As the owner of a small nursery, I needed to find ways to maximize my limited space. I had a lot of outdoor land, but my indoor nursery was very compact. I had to come up with thoughtful solutions in order to start as many seedlings as I possibly could. I had seen LED grow lights at an agricultural trade show that I had attended and I was very interested in the technology. I did have several concerns about what the cost would be and if the grow lights were compact enough in their design to fit i Finish Reading this Post

By TT5Rt78 | Tagged Grow LED, LED Grow Lights, led plant | Comments (0)

How Light Bulbs are changing Mother Earth

March 20, 2009 – 3:30 pm

Environmentalists have told us that if every household in the world replaced just three 60-watt incandescent light bulbs with CFL bulbs, the pollution savings would be like taking 3.5 million cars off the road.

By Get Green | Also posted in Light Bulb Basics | Tagged cfl light bulbs, energy saving, energy star, Light Bulb Basics | Comments (0)