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Green Supply Spring Forward Sale

We love daylight savings with the sunsetting one hour later for us to enjoy sunny evenings without turning on the lights and saving energy.

To celebrate daylight savings, Green Supply is having "Spring Forward" Sale with 5% off any purchases in our store. Come and celebrate daylight savings with us!

"Green" Valentine's Day Sale

Who said you can not be "Green" on "Red" Valentine's Day?

Simple Green ideas to make your Valentine's Day romantic:

• Decorate your dining room with Red and White LED String Lights to set for a romantic dinner.
• Have a romantic "flameless candle" lit dinner.
• Light your family room or bedroom with flameless candles for quiet evening.
• Bring along reusable bags for your loved one to enjoy his/ her shopping spree.

No More 100-Watt Regular Incandescent Light Bulbs in California Starting This Year, 2011

California started early adoption of Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007 by phasing out 100-watt incandescent light bulbs starting this year, 2011. It is estimated that this will avoid the sale of 10.5 million 100-watt incandescent light bulbs in 2011, which would help California consumers save $35.6 million in electricity bills (according to California Energy Commission (CEC)).

The standard does not affect the existing supply of incandescent light bulbs stocked in retail stores or incandescent light bulbs already in use.

What is the Energy Independence Security Act of 2007?

On December 2007, U.S. Congress passed an act (Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007) that require all general-purpose light bulbs that produce 310 to 2600 lumens of light to be 30% more energy efficient than regular incandescent bulbs by 2012 to 2014. This act starts phasing out 100-watt incandescent light bulbs in 2012, 75-watt in 2013 and 40-watt/ 60-watt in 2014.

This is all part of an effort of being Green by being more energy efficient.

What type of light bulbs can be purchased if no more incandescent light bulbs?

3 types of light bulbs are still available:

1) CFLs (Compact Fluorescent Light) for general household, industrial and commercial use. CFLs are toxic containing mercury, highly toxic metal, that gets release as vapor when CFLs are broken. Mercury when inhaled or ingested can cause severe damages to the brain, nervous system and respiratory system.

2) Halogen - commonly used in automotive headlamps, some desk lamps and floodlights. Halogen is not energy efficient and consumes as much energy as incandescent light bulbs.

3) LED light bulbs - used for all (general household, industrial and commercial use and automotive headlamps) and are starting to even replace CFLs and halogen due to its Green qualities.

Some of the Green qualities of LED light bulbs are:

• Energy efficient: consumes 45% less electricity than CFLs and 87% less electricity than halogen and incandescent light bulbs (based on Green Supply LED light bulbs).
• Non-toxic: Does not contain mercury and other harmful chemicals.
• Lasts longer, hence less LED light bulbs ending up in the landfill: At least 5 times longer than CFLs and 50 times longer than incandescent.

LED light bulb is the "Greenest" light bulb for now and our future. More information about Green Supply LED light bulb can be found here: http://www.agreensupply.com/categories/LED-Light-Bulbs/

What is Warm White and Natural Daylight White Color for LED Light Bulbs?

Some people have asked us, how does Green Supply's warm white LED light bulb look like and the same for natural daylight white LED light bulb.

Warm white and natural daylight white is in reference to specific color temperature range. Green Supply's warm white LED light bulbs is in the range of 2800 to 3500K, providing yellowish warm white color light. Natural daylight white is in the range of 4500 to 6500K, providing crisp bluish white color light.

Warm white is the color of light generated by incandescent light bulbs and are commonly used at home for more relaxing and comfortable environment.

Natural daylight white is the color of light generated by sun at daylight and are commonly used at office and store for clean, crisp and refreshing environment.

Here are pictures of how objects look like in warm white light (light provided by Green Supply's 40W replacement warm white LED light bulbs), sunlight and natural daylight white light (light provided by Green Supply's 40W replacement natural daylight white LED light bulbs):

Warm White LED Light Bulb 3000 to 3500K	Sunlight 5500K	Natural Daylight White LED Light Bulb 6000 to 6500K

Terrariums Made Out of Regular Incandescent Light Bulbs!

What do you do with regular incandescent light bulbs that you bought one too many and just piling up in your storage closets because you have replaced them with more energy efficient LED light bulbs and/ or CFLs?

We came across this company, Tiny Terra, that makes terrariums out of regular incandescent light bulbs. What a great Green idea!
Picture shown to the side is one of the terrariums they make (picture taken from their website, http://tinyterra.com/)

For more information about Tiny Terra, please visit their website at: http://tinyterra.com/

Share us your creative ideas or products that reuse replaced regular incandescent light bulbs. Send us an email at: info@agreensupply.com.

For those that send us an email, we will send you a coupon code for 20% off any purchases on our LED light bulbs (http://www.agreensupply.com/categories/LED-Light-Bulbs/).