Comments on: Recessed Lights and Greenwash http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/07/21/recessed-lights-and-greenwash/ Reporting on Sustainably Built Environments from Bricks to Cities Wed, 23 May 2012 23:52:11 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Tim http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/07/21/recessed-lights-and-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-5747 Tim Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:52:26 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=537#comment-5747 If someone is truly interested in a recessed light, and can spend a little more, there may be another option. I've seen it on a few shows on the Planet Green. It's the Solatube light that provides sunlight in the day and allows a recessed light to be inserted into the same area for lighting at night. It's two great items rolled into one. And, yes, I always laugh at the hybrid SUV commercials. "Go from 16 miles per gallon to... 17!" If someone is truly interested in a recessed light, and can spend a little more, there may be another option. I’ve seen it on a few shows on the Planet Green. It’s the Solatube light that provides sunlight in the day and allows a recessed light to be inserted into the same area for lighting at night. It’s two great items rolled into one.

And, yes, I always laugh at the hybrid SUV commercials. “Go from 16 miles per gallon to… 17!”

]]> By: Tim http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/07/21/recessed-lights-and-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-98202 Tim Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:52:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=537#comment-98202 If someone is truly interested in a recessed light, and can spend a little more, there may be another option. I've seen it on a few shows on the Planet Green. It's the Solatube light that provides sunlight in the day and allows a recessed light to be inserted into the same area for lighting at night. It's two great items rolled into one. And, yes, I always laugh at the hybrid SUV commercials. "Go from 16 miles per gallon to... 17!" If someone is truly interested in a recessed light, and can spend a little more, there may be another option. I’ve seen it on a few shows on the Planet Green. It’s the Solatube light that provides sunlight in the day and allows a recessed light to be inserted into the same area for lighting at night. It’s two great items rolled into one.

And, yes, I always laugh at the hybrid SUV commercials. “Go from 16 miles per gallon to… 17!”

]]> By: Philip Proefrock http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/07/21/recessed-lights-and-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-5581 Philip Proefrock Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:09:11 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=537#comment-5581 It's not the little sticker that says "Hybrid" that makes it a better vehicle, it's what's inside the vehicle that matters. Likewise with recessed lights. Making a recessed can light look like a pendant light doesn't do anything to improve its energy efficiency or its performance. If you have a carpet-bombing house with non-IC fixtures in an insulated ceiling, making them look like pendants will do nothing to improve the insulation or the energy performance of the house. The company that was promoting them to me as a green improvement doing a disservice to anyone who buys their junk thinking it will somehow help save energy. I'm okay with hybrid SUVs (though I think there are too many SUVs used by people who don't really need them, but that's a whole separate discussion for some other time). It’s not the little sticker that says “Hybrid” that makes it a better vehicle, it’s what’s inside the vehicle that matters. Likewise with recessed lights.

Making a recessed can light look like a pendant light doesn’t do anything to improve its energy efficiency or its performance. If you have a carpet-bombing house with non-IC fixtures in an insulated ceiling, making them look like pendants will do nothing to improve the insulation or the energy performance of the house. The company that was promoting them to me as a green improvement doing a disservice to anyone who buys their junk thinking it will somehow help save energy.

I’m okay with hybrid SUVs (though I think there are too many SUVs used by people who don’t really need them, but that’s a whole separate discussion for some other time).

]]> By: Philip Proefrock http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/07/21/recessed-lights-and-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-98201 Philip Proefrock Mon, 21 Jul 2008 17:09:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=537#comment-98201 It's not the little sticker that says "Hybrid" that makes it a better vehicle, it's what's inside the vehicle that matters. Likewise with recessed lights. Making a recessed can light look like a pendant light doesn't do anything to improve its energy efficiency or its performance. If you have a carpet-bombing house with non-IC fixtures in an insulated ceiling, making them look like pendants will do nothing to improve the insulation or the energy performance of the house. The company that was promoting them to me as a green improvement doing a disservice to anyone who buys their junk thinking it will somehow help save energy. I'm okay with hybrid SUVs (though I think there are too many SUVs used by people who don't really need them, but that's a whole separate discussion for some other time). It’s not the little sticker that says “Hybrid” that makes it a better vehicle, it’s what’s inside the vehicle that matters. Likewise with recessed lights.

Making a recessed can light look like a pendant light doesn’t do anything to improve its energy efficiency or its performance. If you have a carpet-bombing house with non-IC fixtures in an insulated ceiling, making them look like pendants will do nothing to improve the insulation or the energy performance of the house. The company that was promoting them to me as a green improvement doing a disservice to anyone who buys their junk thinking it will somehow help save energy.

I’m okay with hybrid SUVs (though I think there are too many SUVs used by people who don’t really need them, but that’s a whole separate discussion for some other time).

]]> By: Durapure Coatings http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/07/21/recessed-lights-and-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-5580 Durapure Coatings Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:58:48 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=537#comment-5580 What is your problem with hybrid SUV's? What is your problem with hybrid SUV’s?

]]> By: Durapure Coatings http://greenbuildingelements.com/2008/07/21/recessed-lights-and-greenwash/comment-page-1/#comment-98200 Durapure Coatings Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:58:00 +0000 http://greenbuildingelements.com/?p=537#comment-98200 What is your problem with hybrid SUV's? What is your problem with hybrid SUV’s?

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