{"id":176,"date":"2011-12-19T12:14:51","date_gmt":"2011-12-19T12:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/?p=176"},"modified":"2011-12-19T12:14:51","modified_gmt":"2011-12-19T12:14:51","slug":"christmas-versus-energy-consumption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/?p=176","title":{"rendered":"Christmas VersuS Energy Consumption"},"content":{"rendered":"

We are only few days away from Christmas holidays\u2026and all of us have strolled around our city roads, watching the lights bringing\u00a0out the Christmas spirit year after year. Some of us may have also read articles about the most beautiful Christmas decorated cities or about the tallest Christmas tree ever and so on\u2026 But what about the energy consumed during the holidays and how can we all cut down some electricity use?<\/p>\n

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Paris gets into the festive mood by switching on Christmas lights on the Champs-Elysees. Credit: BBC news<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Cities around the world are lighted up day and night; some of them started even 2 months before holidays, consuming tons of energy. The electricity used for\u00a0seasonal lighting results in the wasteful burning of coal, oil and natural gas. The unwanted byproducts of this can include smoke, acid rain, and\u00a0carbon dioxide emissions released in the environment. Christmas is a time of particularly high energy consumption for every household as well. The entire house is additionally heated as extra family members return to the fold for the holidays. Consequently, televisions, stereos and cooking appliances are overworking as well as some electric powered gadgets that may have been purchased as Christmas gifts.<\/p>\n

Although <\/strong>seasonal lights will never be entirely environmentally friendly or 100% safe, you may not have to switch all of your\u00a0holiday lighting\u00a0off yet. Fortunately, there is an alternative; light-emitting diode<\/a><\/strong> – the well-known LEDs<\/strong>. If you replace all the traditionally toxic and inefficient\u00a0decorative lights with LEDs you consume less energy and the outcome is quite the same. Just to be sure, use an energy calculator<\/a> to see for yourself\u2026 Can you tell the difference?<\/p>\n

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NYC Rockefeller Center Christmas tree goes green with 30.000 LEDs. Credit: Inhabitat.com<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We can also make some energy cuts ourselves during the holidays. To begin with, take considerable care of your energy usage at this time of year; think that you save energy and money at the same time. For example, turn all the unnecessary lights off, don\u2019t leave electrical appliances on standby mode, and avoid all the pointless light d\u00e9cor; besides minimalism is always in fashion!<\/p>\n

If these are too many rules for you; it\u2019s Christmas after all…Just ask Santa for some low-energy lights!<\/p>\n

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We are only few days away from Christmas holidays\u2026and all of us have strolled around our city roads, watching the lights bringing\u00a0out the Christmas spirit year after year. Some of us may have also read articles about the most beautiful Christmas decorated cities or about the tallest Christmas tree ever and so on\u2026 But what […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[17,14,16,15],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=176"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200,"href":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176\/revisions\/200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mentalenvironmental.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}