Homeowners can accomplish every day Earth Day if accumulation added blooming architecture elements, like "daylighting," into their homes. One simple and affordable way to go blooming is to acquaint added accustomed ablaze into any allowance of the home with the Solatube Daylighting System, a awful versatile, energy-efficient addition to skylights. The Solatube Daylighting System is a year-round, energy-saving solution, but Earth Day gives us an befalling to admonish homeowners that eco-friendly practices charge not be big-ticket or ever complicated Every bit makes a aberration - every day.
Vista, CA -- In account of this year's Earth Day on Tuesday, Apr. 22, Solatube International Inc., the common arch architect and banker of Tubular Daylighting Devices (TDDs), is auspicious homeowners to bless Earth Day daily. The aggregation is best accepted for its Solatube Daylighting System, a "green" accustomed lighting band-aid that allows homeowners to abate their activity burning by switching off electric lights.
Solatube Daylighting System Participating Solatube Premier Dealers will be alms a $60 abatement on Solatube Daylighting Systems purchased amid April 13 and April 22. A abatement will aswell be accessible for Solar Star®, the solar-powered attic blast fan. Local dealers can be begin by visiting www.solatube.com.
"The Solatube Daylighting System is a year-round, energy-saving solution, but Earth Day gives us an befalling to admonish homeowners that eco-friendly practices charge not be big-ticket or ever complicated," said Robert E. Westfall Jr., Solatube International's carnality president, sales and marketing. "Every bit makes a aberration - every day."
An boilerplate home's activity use can could cause added than alert the aggregate of greenhouse gas emissions of the boilerplate car, according to ENERGY STAR, a collective affairs of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Department of Energy that helps consumers save money and assure the ambiance through activity able articles and practices.
Each year, 10 percent of a archetypal individual ancestors home's activity bill is spent on lighting. An added 49 percent of the bill is spent on heating and cooling costs, which can be abundantly impacted by electric ablaze use and heat/gain accident from inefficient windows and skylights. However, if daylighting applications are appropriately applied, homeowners can abundantly abatement the aggregate of activity acclimated aural their home. Tubular Daylighting Devices, such as the Solatube Daylighting System, amount annihilation to accomplish and aswell abate the charge for automated cooling during aiguille amount hours. Installing one Solatube 160 Daylighting System can aswell save about 19 pounds of carbon emissions annually. Homeowners can aswell add a bunched beaming Light Add-On Kit to their Solatube Daylighting System to about-face the artefact into an all-purpose, energy-efficient lighting band-aid for both day and night.
Eco-Friendly Lighting Tips That Can Make a Big Difference
Turn off the electric lights. This is abnormally important to do during the daytime and if no one is home. If ablaze is needed, alone about-face on accessories that are necessary, and try to use as abundant accustomed ablaze as possible. Go accessible those blinds.
Swap out beaming bulbs to CFLs. ENERGY STAR addendum that its able bunched beaming bulbs use about 75 percent beneath activity than accepted beaming bulbs, endure up to 10 times best and save about $30 or added in electricity costs over anniversary bulb's lifetime.
Add added accustomed light. This is a advocacy of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) and the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC)'s official REGREEN standard, a new set of ecology guidelines for homeowners. Installing added windows or abacus a skylight may be big-ticket and cumbersome, but simple solutions such as TDDs can be installed beneath two hours with no structural reframing required.
Solatube International Inc., based in Vista, Calif. (northern San Diego County), is the common arch architect and banker of Tubular Daylighting Devices (TDDs). The company's flagship product, the Solatube Daylighting System, provides a advocate accustomed lighting band-aid for all types of residential and bartering applications and is the alone spec-grade TDD currently accessible on the market. The adage "Innovation in DaylightingTM" reflects the company's charge to the development of advance daylighting technologies, which has resulted in abundant patents dating aback to the mid-1980s. Widely accustomed as the industry innovator, Solatube International has becoming acclaim about the apple for its incomparable adeptness to transform autogenous spaces with the ability of daylight. For added advice on the Solatube Daylighting System or added articles bogus and marketed by Solatube International, including solar-powered attic blast fans, amuse appointment the Solatube Web site or alarm 888-SOLATUBE (888-765-2882).
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