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Bring the warmth of Christmas lights into your holiday without the added environmental and financial cost of inefficient and polluting sources of illumination. Instead, choose LED light strings and eco-friendly candles to reduce your energy consumption and soot production while adding that festive glow to your Christmas activities.
What to look for when buying eco-friendly Christmas lighting
Whether you're in the market for candles or electric lights, GreenYour can help you light your holiday the eco-friendly way, with a few simple guidelines to keep in mind.
Energy-efficient electric lighting
Dim the lights and turn up the savings by choosing energy-efficient electric Christmas lights. These basic energy-efficient lighting principles should get you saving energy and money on holiday lighting while maintaining a beautiful festive decor:
- Choose LEDs: Light-emitting diodes or LEDs are small bulbs that work when electrons move through a semiconductor material. They use nearly 90 percent less energy than incandescent bulbs resulting in much lower energy consumption, and that means fewer greenhouse gas emissions and cash in your pocket over the long run.[1] They can save you up to $10 in electricity per 300 hours of light time.[2]
- Reach for ENERGY STAR: These bulbs consume up to 75 percent less energy than regular Christmas lights. In fact, if every new string of lights purchased in the US were ENERGY STAR qualified, Americans would save over 2 billion kWh of energy every year, which is like taking 300,000 cars off the road.
- Get equipped with timers: Stop worrying about leaving your holiday lights on when you’re not at home by using a light timer to set when they come on and turn off.
And just in case you needed a bit more convincing, here are some additional LED advantages:
- Longer lives: LEDs are “solid state” lights that do not have any moving parts, glass, or filaments. What this means for you is that they can last up to 200,000 hours (which equals lifespans almost 10 times longer than regular strings) without ever burning out or breaking, so that fewer replacements are required and less garbage is created. And since they’re virtually indestructible, unlike light strings of old, if one bulb burns out, the whole string isn’t lost! The remaining bulbs keep on shining.
- Increased safety: On average, there are 300 Christmas tree fires in the US every year, resulting in 14 human fatalities. But this risk is greatly reduced when LEDs are used since they are cool to the touch (making them safe for little fingers, too).
Eco-friendly Christmas candles
Classic paraffin candles are made from petroleum byproducts, so natural choices made from a variety of renewable ingredients (such as palm oil, beeswax, and soy) are eco-preferable for your holiday decorations. They’re also healthier for you and the planet—when paraffin burns, it produces the same soot as burning diesel fuel. The air contaminants in paraffin fumes include toluene, benzene, methyl ethyl keytone, and naphthalene—the same substances found in paint and varnish removers.
Find it! Eco-friendly Christmas lights and candles
American Lighting Standard Grade LED G12 Holiday Globe String Lights
Light up your Christmas trees, garland, windows, and doors with festive colors that are easy on the pocketbook. These ones are round, but they also come in a variety of other shapes and a wide array of colors.Aveda Shampure Soy Wax Candle
Aveda's Shampure Soy Wax Candle contains 25 pure plant and flower essences (many of them certified organic) packed into a 95 percent recycled glass container. The candle offers 50 hours of clean burn time.Berry-shaped LED Lights
These ENERGY STAR qualified light strings come on 20 gauge wire and are completely weather-proof (but can be used outside or inside). Strings can be purchased as single-color or multi-color, with color choices including red, green, blue, warm white, and pure white.Classic style LEDs
If you like the look of traditional mini-lights for your Christmas tree, grab some of these lights. They’re ENERGY STAR qualified, come in lots of colors (red, yellow, orange, blue, or green in mono or multi-colored strings), and are extremely durable.Garland LED Christmas Lights
Give your tree or garland a beaded look with these globe-shaped lights strung together in a continuous garland. Colors include red, blue, orange, and green and come on a white light string.Intermatic Lamp and Appliance Timer
Want a simple, inexpensive way to turn your indoor lights on and off with your schedule? Easy to use, these all-purpose timers have two on/off settings per day so you won’t have to worry about forgetting to shut off your lights again.Intermatic/Grasslin Electronic In-Wall Timer
Replace your standard wall switch with an auto controller like this one. It’ll let you to enter 7-on, 7-off events daily or weekly to control indoor lights, fans, and office machines.LED Rope Light
Add these flexible “ropes” of light to your trees (indoor or outdoor), landscaping, banisters, or doorways for a unique accent lighting touch. This rope is multi-colored, but other options in single-colors are also available.Nature's Finest Candles Palm Creations
Looking for paraffin-free candles in a wide variety of heady scents? Turn to Palm Creations by Nature's Finest Candles where long-burning, environmentally responsible candles made from palm oil are in ready supply.Snowflake Christmas LED Lights
Bring a wintry feeling into your decorating scheme with snowflake shaped LED lights that can be used indoors or outdoors. They’re completely weatherproof and come in either white or blue. ENERGY STAR qualified.Solar-powered Wreath
Light the way to your home with this wreath trimmed with tiny lights. The faux evergreen boughs are made from recycled plastic, and the lights are powered using renewable energy from a hidden daylight-sensing photo cell.Soulshine Beeswax Candles
Soulshine makes a wide array of all-natural hand dipped and poured beeswax candles free of synthetic colors and fragrances. Pick and choose from long-lasting pillars, votives, tapers, tealights, and a range of novelty candles.
Before you buy
LEDs sometimes cost a little more up front, partially because they often come with fewer bulbs per string than incandescent strings, making it necessary to purchase additional strings. As a result, when compared light-for-light, it will cost you more to buy new LEDs strings for the holidays initially. However, depending on how many hours you have your holiday lights on each season, the extra cost could come back to you in as little as one year.
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