Just a reminder that tonight is Earth Hour in major cities across the World. Major cities such as Sydney and Chicago and businesses are participating in shutting off the lights from 8 to 9 P.M.
The website with a list of businesses and cities participating is www.EarthHour.org. Google changed it’s screen for the day and is all black and looks pretty cool. I think their explanation and exposure to the Earth Hour website has crashed the earth hour website since it’s pretty hard to pull up and really, really slow right now compared to when I was on it last week.
On the website is a list of cities and businesses that are participating in Earth Hour. Las Vegas or Henderson is not on it and very few businessess (In fact, I can’t remember seeing one) in Las Vegas have signed up to participate which for whatever reason is pretty sad. If you get a chance, take a look at the Earth Hour website and participate in turning off the lights from 8 to 9 P.M.
I think the biggest energy saving tips I can give anybody in the Southwest United States right now is to change out those old flood lights and change them out to compact fluorescent light bulbs. From the EPA website:
If every American home replaced just one light bulb with an ENERGY STAR qualified bulb, we would save enough energy to light more than 3 million homes for a year, more than $600 million in annual energy costs, and prevent greenhouse gases equivalent to the emissions of more than 800,000 cars.
For people in the hot Desert Southwest, something else to keep in mind is that the normal flood lights are like little heat lamps. In other words, during the hot summer days when the AC’s are running and you are trying to keep your Las Vegas home cool, those normal flood lights are heating your home – Making your AC work harder and your electric meter spinning like a meat cutter.
Switch those bulbs out before it starts getting hot and you’ll save some money this Summer.
Paul Francis, ABR,CRS | Coldwell Banker Premier | Las Vegas Real Estate | 702.592.3058
