Six Green Tips For Lighting Your Green Home

Part of having a Green Home is thinking about how you light your green home. Improvements to your lighting is one of the quickest ways to reduce your power consumption. In an average month 11% of your power usage is lighting. Using newer technologies and advances in light bulbs and timers you can save 50% to 65% of that power usage.

Green Tip #1. 

Use tube fluorescent bulbs or compact fluorescent bulbs. They consume 75% less energy and last 6 to 10 times longer.

Green Tip #2

You also need to consider installing timers, occupancy sensors, and photo cells to reduce the amount of time your lights are actually on. 

Green Tip #3

Another way to go green in your home with lighting is using task lighting which only lights what you need rather than garish overhead lighting.  Make sure you have 4 ft fluorescent light bulbs in your garage and other work areas. 

Green Tip #4

In the yard, solar lighting is the best way to illuminate your way.  There are hundreds of different types of lamps for this purpose and they are inexpensive and will pay for themselves in no time.

Green Tip #5

Taking advantage of daylight is very important to your green home.  Open blinds or curtains and think about installing some skylights, if you do not already have them, because skylights will light your entire home until the sun goes down.

Green Tip #6

Placing and setting timers with all your appliances that have standby systems, will decrease unnecessary power usage and save you money, since they use power 24 hours a day. 

By implementing these techniques, you will make your home greener and also notice a substantial savings on your power bill making for a happy green wallet.