ACTION ALERT: Join Taraluna in the Holiday Lights Campaign and Spread a Little Light This Holiday Season! (TIPS, HINTS, HOUSEHOLD)

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Have You Saved the Planet Today?

 

Join Taraluna in the Holiday Lights Campaign and Spread a Little Light

This Holiday Season!

 

Consider this: If 110 million households changed just one 60 watt bulb

in their home to a compact fluorescent bulb it would save enough energy

to power a city of 1.5 million people. That one bulb times 110 million

would be like taking 1.3 million cars off the road. Amazing, isn't it?

 

Taraluna is proud to have joined forces with City Hippy and Green Jenni

in the " Holiday Lights Campaign. " Al of City Hippy put forward a

question about how to make the most difference - Green Jenni responded

with an answer that started the ball rolling on the Christmas Lights

Campaign. Please read the entire article below - in a nutshell - they

would like to see people pledge to give away CFL's along with their

regular Christmas, birthday, Chanukah, Kwanzaa (whatever) gifts. Small

things add up to a big difference. We are hoping for 100,000 bulbs pledged!

 

Our Gift to You

 

Taraluna would like to make it easier for you to accomplish this task -

since we are a gift store, and our customers are buying gifts anyway we

will throw in a free 18 watt (equivalent to a 75 watt incandescent),

GREENLITE, ENERGY STAR CFL with every purchase of $50.00 or more. You

can also purchase the bulbs for $3.00 each. If you don't want to shop

with us but still want to make a pledge, simply fill in the number of

bulbs you would like to pledge and hit send! We will keep track and add

our total to the main count with City Hippy and Green Jenni. Check back

after the holidays to see if we reached our goal of 100,000 CFL's!

 

Read the Christmas Lights Campaign

(http://www.taraluna.com/main_Action.htm#xmas) for lots of great

information about energy saving CFL bulbs, and for even more information

including safety and disposal facts please see our learning pages!

(http://www.taraluna.com/learn.htm#CFL)

 

 

Do Your Part this Holiday Season, Join the Christmas Lights Campaign

 

FEATURE: Christmas Lights Campaign

Reprinted with permission of Al of City Hippy and Green Jenni

 

Gandhi once famously said that it is better to light a candle than to

curse the darkness. He also apparently commented that if we each bring

light to one dark corner then the world will be full of light. Finally

Gandhi tells us that we must Be the change. **Turns out that Gandhi may

not have said It's better to light a candle than to curse the darkness.

I have managed to source it to: a Chinese Proverb, Carl Sagan and Adlai

Stevenson (1900-65), praising Eleanor Roosevelt.**

 

The Christmas Lights campaign seeks to help you achieve all three

things: make a positive change to our world, start putting any green

guilt you carry around to rest and finally, but perhaps most

importantly, this campaign will help all of us be the change one dark

corner at a time.

 

Based on the Question I asked that Jen replied to we are delighted to

announce the official launch of the Christmas Lights campaign.

 

WHAT IT IS?

The goal of the campaign is to encourage as many people and businesses

as possible to pledge that this 'Christmas / Chanukah / Kwanzaa /

Holiday Season / Whatever' they will buy CFL bulbs for friends and

family or employees thus increasing efficiency, lowering emissions and

helping to gently educate people as to the benefits of CFL bulbs.

 

HOW IT WORKS

For each employee or person you buy gifts for over the holiday season,

please pledge (via the comments below) to buy one compact fluorescent

light (CFL) bulb for them as well. Add it on as an extra or take it out

the gift money you were gonna spend on them - whatever suits you.

 

In your pledge we want to know how many bulbs you pledge to gift.

 

HELP SPREAD THE LIGHT:

 

Additionally, you can help us spread the word and tell others about the

campaign via:

- your own blog using our WordofBlog campaign tile

- email using the PDF that will be here shortly or just direct them to

this post

- or just good old fashioned word of mouth

 

We will keep a tally of how many people participate and how many bulbs

are pledged.

 

 

TARGET

Our target is to get pledges for 100,000 bulbs as this would reduce

global CO2 emissions by approximately 50,000 to 62,500 tons – the

equivalent of offsetting approximately 2000-2500 US citizens or

4000-5000 UK citizens entirely for a whole year.

(Extrapolated from here http://mdgs.un.org/unsd/mdg/default.aspx)

 

CFL FACTS:

For each incandescent bulb you replace with a CFL, you can save

approximately 1000 to 1250 pounds of CO2 from being added to the

atmosphere during the life of the bulb.

 

Each bulb can save you over $30 or £16 pounds over the life of the bulb

in energy costs. That's because CFLs use 75% less energy and produce 90%

less heat than incandescent bulbs.

 

CFLs are a gift that keeps on giving in money saved.

 

Do you have complicated or hard to reach light fixtures? CFLs can last

10,000 hours – 8 to 10 times longer than incandescent bulbs, which means

a lot less labor and time spent on ladders and chairs.

 

An added bonus is that CFLs are safer than incandescents – they're cool

to the touch and are less likely to cause burns or fires – although make

sure you buy high watt CFLs to ensure they provide enough light for the

person you are buying for. Here are some wattage equivalents for you:

 

15W CFL = 60W regular bulb

20W CFL = 75W regular

29W CFL = 100W regular

40W CFL = 150W regular

55W CFL = 250-300W regular

(figures from GE Lighting website)

 

CAVEATS:

" To maximize savings, use CFLs in places where lights are on for long

periods of time. Frequent switching on and off will shorten the CFL's life. "

 

" CFLs contain four milligrams of mercury, approximately half the mercury

found in a linear fluorescent lamp. Mercury vapour will only be released

when the lamp is broken while operating. Most lamp manufacturers offer a

" low mercury " or environmentally friendly lamp. The green socket or end

cap identifies these lamps. "

 

Taken from the Earth Day Network

(http://www.earthday.net/resources/2006materials/cf-facts.aspx)

 

We look forward to your participation and to a very Bright Holiday

season thanks to all our Christmas Lights

 

Namaste

Al (CityHippy) & Jenni (Green Jenni)

 

 

http://www.taraluna.com/main_Action.htm#free

 

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