Day 78: Use LED Night Lights

Our night lights for the kids rooms and bathrooms have slowly bitten the dust and we have had to use much more energy to keep the dark at bay. In our big boys room we had to leave the closet light on all night with the door cracked, which we know is a waste, night lights however are apparently really easy to forget when you are at the store. Finally, yesterday  they were remembered and not only can we stop wasting a whole closet's worth of light but while I was looking around I spotted some LED nitelites from Amerelle and LED lights are suppose to be really great energy conservers!

Here is a little more about LED lights from The Daily Green:

LED Nightlights Cost Only Pennies a Year

The technology behind laptop computer screens, LEDs are greener than standard incandescent, and even fluorescent, lightbulbs because they generate less waste heat. Most of the electricity used is output as light. LEDs remain cool to the touch, so they don't add excess heat into living spaces, which means less cooling is needed. They last for tens of thousands of hours, meaning they can go years before they need to be changed, thereby cutting down on landfill waste.

In terms of cost, size and brightness, LEDs are getting better all the time, and are seeing many new applications.

Many companies now sell LED nightlights, which are competitively priced with standard nightlights, and can be found at most home improvement, value and even drugstores. They cost only pennies a year in energy, and result in much lower carbon emissions over traditional lighting.

Read more: http://www.thedailygreen.com/going-green/tips/led-nightlights#ixzz1imk7niAF