December 18, 2008 at 1:21 am (Mother Nature)
Tags: darkness, lights, rites, rituals, winter solstice
As we approach the winter solstice it gets a little darker each day.
Our Christmas or holiday lights are an ancient ritual to keep the darkness at bay and help the sun find it’s way back.
The lighting of trees and buildings is just one just of the ancient rites associated with the winter solstice that we still practice today.
September 30, 2008 at 1:30 am (money savings)
Tags: Capitol, CFL, economic, energy, frugal, green lifestyle, lights, money, news, re-purpose, recycle, reduce, resue, wasted
As a rule, living a green lifestyle takes a little thought each day. It means you have to change some habits that you’ve probably had for a long time and didn’t realize.
As I think about it we can apply this same way of looking at things to the present economic situations that the country is in. In general a green lifestyle is a frugal lifestyle. We reuse, recycle, re-purpose and reduce. We turn off the CFL when we leave the room.
For the last two weeks I’ve watched the news almost every night live from New York City or Washington DC. As the days have started to get shorter I’ve noticed one thing, all the buildings where business’ are going bankrupt along with the Capitol have all the lights on. Why?
If they are out of money or even need to save money or just want to be responsible why don’t they turn the lights out? All of those lights on all of those floors in all of those buildings has got to add up to a lot of money and a lot more wasted energy.
I don’t think this will solve the problem, but it’s a start. And I really don’t want to give my hard earned money to people that don’t even turn the lights out at night.
September 28, 2008 at 2:11 am (money savings)
Tags: energy, lights, outside, power, solar, sunshine
I am a big fan of solar power. Today I used it in one of my favorite forms, as a clothes dryer. I love to hang my clothes out to dry. I remember my grandmothers doing it, and my mother still does it. I live in Northern Colorado and it can be difficult to find days warm enough year round to dry clothes outside, but I sure try.
When I sit on the patio in the evening it and the yard are lighted with solar power. We have two lights with individual panels on the arbor and four individual panel garden lights. Both of these type of lights require no wires and can go anywhere there is sunshine.
Solar power doesn’t have to be expensive, it can be as simple as opening the curtains instead of turning on the light.
