Over the last few years, the world has been advocating for green solutions. With the main aim of saving the planet, these concerted efforts are bearing fruits. A green planet is free from emissions and global warming. On that note, here are lighting initiatives for a green planet.
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Category Archives: The Environment
Looking at the impact of energy saving light bulbs on the environment plus other general green issues
An update on the Light Bulb Ban
Conventional incandescent light bulbs are starting to vanish from the market. Some recently formulated energy-efficiency regulations intended to kick out old-fashioned bulbs from the lighting industry.
Though most bulb manufacturers are fighting hard to get a court order stopping the regulations ...
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Lighting Building Exteriors
You have pulled out numerous stops--just to make that house, building, backyard and its surrounding of yours look superb. So, why let all your labored work go in vain when, with a glide of a switch plus some strategically positioned landscape exterior lights, you can confidently roll back the dimnes...
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A Guide to LUX Levels
Light Level, also referred to as Illuminance, represents the amount of light that is measured on a surface (which is plane). Or, it can be described as the total luminous flux incident that strikes on a plane surface. It is measured per unit area and is commonly known as LUX.
Understanding LUX
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Do Energy Saving Light Bulbs actually save you money and energy?
There is always a lot of speculation over whether or not energy saving light bulbs actually do what they’re named to do; save you energy! With the increase in climate changes and global warming, it is becoming more and more essential to do what we can to prevent climate change from worsening a...
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The Light Bulb Ban- UK ahead of EU!
It has been over 100 years since Thomas Edison invented the incandescent light bulb which orchestrated a step change in technology and peoples life styles. In fact the year was 1879 and this fabulous invention has really stood the test of time and is only now being superseded. But the Edison name w...
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Carbon Footprint- Putting energy saving light bulbs into perspective
In a previous post I reviewed the impact of changing from traditional filament incandescent light bulbs to energy saving light bulbs on the carbon footprint. In broad terms then if you use a 100 watt bulb for 4 hours a day then changing this single bulb to an energy saving light bulb will save arou...
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Has the mailing of free energy saving light bulbs to consumers worked?
In 2008 the government put in legislation so say that energy companies must put in measures to make consumers more energy efficiency and to assist people of low income in obtaining the necessary energy resources to heat and light their homes. The energy companies could address this matter in differe...
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How much CO2 does a light bulb create?
You might well be confused by all this talk about Carbon Dioxide (CO2) and light bulbs. Why do the government and environmental authorities say that the move to energy saving light bulbs is so important and why has legislation been put in place to progressively ban the incandescent light bulb. Som...
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