We have always liked to cover products which give importance to preservation of environment. Well, Havells’ green CFL range of products did just that!

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You can see press clippings about their product range below:

 

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From Havells’ website:

Always sensitive to the needs of the consumers and country, the company strives to serve them better with energy efficient light sources. The wide range of compact fluorescent lamps and luminaries from Havells are a result of this conviction.

At Havells, it is our philosophy to continuously upgrade products in order to best serve modern discerning consumers. We feel proud and privileged to share with you one such innovation of making Havells CFLs more environment friendly by introducing India’s first Green CFL.

Today, most of the CFL manufacturers worldwide use liquid mercury due to cost effectiveness and simpler technology. The disadvantage is that technically it is extremely difficult to limit the weight of liquid mercury (generally a CFL contains at least 3 to 5 times more than prescribed norms by Indian and International standards).

But we have modified all our CFL production lines and adopted PDT (Pill Dosing Technology). With PDT, we now use amalgamated mercury pills that are less harmful to the environment as compared to conventional use of liquid mercury. These pills also conform to Indian and International standards on use of mercury in CFLs.

In addition, we are the first Indian CFL manufacturers to have adopted RoHS, European norms on Restriction of Hazardous Substances in CFLs.

Benefits:
- Environment Friendly CFLs
– Quicker lumen stabilisation time
– Brighter light
– Brightness for longer period – maintains higher lumen
– No black spots
– RoHS compliant & ISI certified

We have been already manufacturing RoHS compliant CFLs for past some time. In order to spread awareness, we are announcing the arrival of India’s first Green CFLs through a new packaging design, using green colour.

It is good to see companies contribute towards environmental causes….

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Did you know that there are two types of solar water heaters?

1) Vacuum Tube Collector (and)

2) Flat Plate Collector

We recommend that you read the article from the source (Venus Appliances website)

http://www.venushomeappliances.com/pages/products-vacuum.htm

http://www.venushomeappliances.com/pages/products-solar.htm

Solar water heaters are a fantastic way of saving power. This works very well for people who have independent homes. In apartments, general consensus may be required before installing one.

The units are generally expensive compared to electric water heaters. The difference alone can be 10,000 rupees or higher, but over a period of 2 years, the solar water heater will actually pay for itself and after that it is literally “free” hot water supply.

Read FAQ about solar water heaters here:

http://www.venushomeappliances.com/pages/products-vacuum3.htm

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Original Article : (testing trackback)

 http://interiorspaces.wordpress.com/2008/02/26/save-electricity-go-green/

If you have the will, here are some simple ways by which you can save energy and cut down on the ever-mounting electricity bills.

1: Replace an ordinary bulb with a CFL (compact fluorescent lamp), which uses one-quarter to one-third the energy to produce the same amount of light. Even if we replaced just one GLS bulb (incandescent lamp) with a CFL in every electrified home in India, we could save 10,000 MW of electric load, enough to light up 100 million homes.

2: Always remember to turn off the lights that you’re not using in the house. You will be surprised to know how far this goes in conserving energy.

3: After use, take household gadgets off their stand-by mode and switch them off. Not many know that plugged-in gadgets, even in stand-by mode, use energy. In fact, gadgets in stand-by mode can amount to about five to 10 per cent of your electricity bill.

4: Use task lighting instead of general room lighting and use multiple switches in order to conserve power.

5: Make use of natural daylight in combination with artificial lighting at the design stage itself. Also ensure effective insulation as poor insulation causes a great deal of energy to escape outside.

6: Go Green. Switch to new methods like solar lighting or make use of renewable sources like wind and bio-gas. This will increase efficiency as well as control energy costs and save energy, all at the same time.

(The writer is the President of Indian Society of Lighting Engineers)

Source : India Today Home

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Here are some more tips on how to ensure that the emissions from your home and daily life activities are lowered.

 All the suggestions are made with US geography in mind. We will try to see if there are similar services available in India as well. Won’t be surprised if some of these can be done in India as well (going by my earlier experience with Reva). And for more information, please check the climatecrisis website.

Choose energy efficient appliances when making new purchases
Look for the Energy Star label on new appliances to choose the most efficient models. If each household in the U.S. replaced its existing appliances with the most efficient models available, 175 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions will be reduced on an annual basis.

Insulate and weatherize your home
Properly insulating your walls and ceilings can save 25% of your home heating bill and 2,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. The Consumer Federation of America has more information on how to better insulate your home.

Get a home energy audit
Many utilities offer free home energy audits to find where your home is poorly insulated or energy inefficient. You can save up to 30% off your energy bill and 1,000 pounds of carbon dioxide a year. Energy Star can help you find an energy specialist.

Switch to green power
In many areas, you can switch to energy generated by clean, renewable sources such as wind and solar. The Green Power Network is a good place to start to figure out what’s available in your area.

Buy locally grown and produced foods
The average meal in the United States travels 1,200 miles from the farm to your plate. Buying locally will save fuel and keep money in your community. Needless to say, this applies in whichever country you are living in.

Seek out and support local farmers markets
They reduce the amount of energy required to grow and transport the food to you by one fifth. If you are in US, you can find a farmer’s market in your area at the USDA website.

Buy organic foods as much as possible
Organic soils capture and store carbon dioxide at much higher levels than soils from conventional farms. If we grew all of our corn and soybeans organically, we’d remove 580 billion pounds of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere.

Start a carpool with your coworkers or classmates
Sharing a ride with someone just 2 days a week will reduce your carbon dioxide emissions by 1,590 pounds a year. eRideShare.com runs a free national service connecting commuters and travelers.

Try car sharing
Need a car but don’t want to buy one? Community car sharing organizations provide access to a car and your membership fee covers gas, maintenance and insurance. Many companies – such as Flexcar — offer low emission or hybrid cars too! Also, see ZipCar.

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Thought we’ll start out the year with some tips for better home maintenance from the environmental perspective. Given below are the pointers that we came across in the site climatecrisis.org. Clearly it is prepared with the US homes in mind, but some points are quite on target for other countries as well.

1. Cleaning a dirty air filter on your air conditioner can save 350 pounds of carbon dioxide a year.

2. Programmable thermostats will automatically lower the heat or air conditioning at night and raise them again in the morning. They can save you $100 a year on your energy bill.

3. You can save another 550 pounds per year by setting the thermostat no higher than 120 degrees Fahrenheit.

4. You can save 700 pounds of carbon dioxide when you air dry your clothes instead of using a dryer.

5. Even when turned off, things like hairdryers, cell phone chargers and televisions use energy. In fact, the energy used to keep display clocks lit and memory chips working accounts for 5 percent of total domestic energy consumption and spews 18 million tons of carbon into the atmosphere every year!

6. You can save 3,000 pounds of carbon dioxide every year if your new car gets only 3 miles per gallon more than your current one. You can get up to 60 miles per gallon with a hybrid!

7. You can save 100 pounds of carbon dioxide per year if you use your dishwasher only when the load is full.

8. It takes 70 to 90% less energy to make recycled paper and it prevents the loss of forests worldwide. So use recycled paper more.

9. Frozen food uses 10 times more energy to produce. So it is far better to use fresh food than the frozen ones.

10. If just 1% of car owners properly maintain their cars, nearly a billion pounds of carbon dioxide will be kept out of the atmosphere.
    

Psst.. Have a few more pointers with us. But saving that for another day.

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