LED Lights Are Here

Finally, LED lights are becoming affordable - and more and more common.  We bought our first LED bulbs a couple months ago at Home Depot.  Out of curiosity, I had stopped in to see if they were carrying them yet.  I didn't see any and asked the first HD employee I saw.

"Sold out," he said, "should get more in Friday."

I looked at the one empty slot on the shelves - amidst hundreds of options for different bulbs of all types, shapes and sizes.  "That's a good sign," I thought to myself.

I went back the next weekend and picked up a few bulbs that fit these weird candelabra fixtures we have in our new rental.  They're not super cheap - about $14 for a pack of two.  But they use about 90% less energy than the old incandescent bulbs, so they'll pay for themselves over time.  And when I see the coal plant burning less than a mile from our house, and know that we just took demand down a notch, that's priceless.

Sustainable PVC?

Vinyl and PVC are common building materials that have a whole host of problems associated with them. There are many alternative materials that can be used, yet the materials are ubiquitous because they are low-cost and durable, and perform certain functions well.

Under pressure from health and environmental groups aiming to ban PVC altogether in the late ‘90s, the industry in Europe set out to create “sustainable PVC”....read more at our Aedi Construction blog.

credit to http://www.inhabitat.com/2007/03/26/pvc-no-good/ for the photo.