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50 Easy Ways to Green Your Home, Business and Services
EHX Going Green breakfast panelists share ways to green your services, home and business.
Did you know that nearly 40 percent of the power used by a plasma TV is during its standby mode?
Or that setting a global limit of 90 percent on all lights in the home (which is virtually undetectable by the human eye) will reduce the energy consumption for the lights by 10 percent immediately?
Those are just some of the highlights from the first-ever CE Pro Wakeup Call "Going Green" Breakfast at EHX Fall in Long Beach, Calif.
Panelists Collin Breakstone of Ultimate Control, Rick Kukulies of NuVo Technologies and Phil Scheetz of Lutron Electronics led a discussion for about 50 attendees, who dined on green-tortilla breakfast burritos and green apples on green tablecloths using green cloth napkins.
The event, moderated by CE Pro editor Jason Knott, was designed to provide integrators with takeaway action items to "go green," which can be not only a selling point for customers, but a motivator among employees.
The takeaway items were broken into three major areas:
A. How to offer green technology products and services to your clients;
B. How to make your own company/workplace green; and
C. How to be a green citizen of the Earth at home.
Click here to view the 50 easy ways to green your home, business and services.
Or that setting a global limit of 90 percent on all lights in the home (which is virtually undetectable by the human eye) will reduce the energy consumption for the lights by 10 percent immediately?
Those are just some of the highlights from the first-ever CE Pro Wakeup Call "Going Green" Breakfast at EHX Fall in Long Beach, Calif.
Panelists Collin Breakstone of Ultimate Control, Rick Kukulies of NuVo Technologies and Phil Scheetz of Lutron Electronics led a discussion for about 50 attendees, who dined on green-tortilla breakfast burritos and green apples on green tablecloths using green cloth napkins.
The event, moderated by CE Pro editor Jason Knott, was designed to provide integrators with takeaway action items to "go green," which can be not only a selling point for customers, but a motivator among employees.
The takeaway items were broken into three major areas:
A. How to offer green technology products and services to your clients;
B. How to make your own company/workplace green; and
C. How to be a green citizen of the Earth at home.
Click here to view the 50 easy ways to green your home, business and services.
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Here’s an idea. Instead of giving us the “what to do”, try giving us the “how to do it”. The what to do is for the most part, pretty obvious and has been covered over and over by every magazine, news paper, and evening news program already.
Why not post info on who offers lighting control with astronomic clock functions, and who to contact to get packing materials picked up for recycling. Maybe you could share some info on how much longer light bulbs last when dimmed to 90%. It’s not just the cost of the bulbs, but in larger homes with tall ceilings and recessed lighting, the hassle of replacing them is just as much of a concern. Add a little substance to the article instead of some propaganda flash cards aimed at people who have been living under a rock for the past 2 years.
And what about the financial impact? That is a big selling point. How many pounds of CO2 is saved has no context to the average person and therefore no impact. But tell them that a programmable thermostat can save them hundreds of dollars per year and they’ll pay attention. Like it or not, being “green” isn’t always about trees, it’s about dollars too.