Green Lighting Solutions

Lighting our lives doesn’t have to have a negative impact on our environment. We can minimize our energy footprint significantly by changing how we light our homes.

Before we talk about the bulb, lets talk about the shade. If you use dark shades, they will absorb the light you’re producing. On the other hand, if you use a white shade, the light will reflect off of it and appear to produce more light. The more you can bounce the light around the more effective you will be at lighting your home with minimal power use. This includes how you paint and decorate your walls, keep them light so they reflect, allowing you to minimize the amount of light you need to produce. When you leave a room, turn the lights off, during the day, open the shades and let the sun light your home.  There are even energy saving air purifying light bulbs.

Now the bulbs, incandescent bulbs are the most energy hungry. They are being phased out in favor of greener solutions. Those greener solutions are compact florescent bulbs or CFLs, and light emitting diodes, LEDs. CFLs are the most common on the market at this time, they are energy efficient, cost efficient and they produce little heat which will make your air conditioning bill diminish. They are a good proposition any way you look at them. LEDs are even more efficient but are currently quite a bit more expensive. The price is steadily decreasing and when they come more into line with what consumers expect to pay, they are likely to overtake the CFLs.

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