These are some of the latest offerings from LampsPlus. You don’t know much about LampsPlus? Well, they’ve been around for well over 30 years and are one of the top online resources for lighting and chandeliers if not the top one. They probably have more stock items than any other lighting and chandelier resource. Of course that can be a bit daunting when you have so much choice. But anyway check through some of their main categories and you can quickly refine down to what you want.
I really do recommend a careful look at this site and their offers that I’ve included here. It’s great that they are also conscientious enough to include discounts on environmentally friendly products. They presently have a range of energy efficient lighting as well as products with Energy Star
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Some other offers are time sensitive for instance is one expires at the end of the month:
Take $40 Off Your Purchase of $450 or More at LampsPlus.com!(Not valid in stores)
Long-term LampsPlus Offers
Others are more long-term, for instance with this one you can save up to 50% at the LampsPlus.com Half Price Days & Sale! it’s one of those offers they regularly make for short periods of time. This regular re-introduction and withdrawal is something they have been practicing for more than two years and will continue to occur through to the end of next year. So if you miss the present one, you’ll need to check back for a future one, or just look at their present offers that I am posting in this Discounts section.
Then they even have some clearance items which have up to 70% off as well as including free shipping. This also will be in force till the end of next year.
Chandelier-Mall Selected Lighting Stores
Courtesy of LampsPlus, I am presenting a few pages of products. Do browse them, they are well worth the time!
Bronze Finished Terracotta Chandelier of Vicosa Collection
One of the 
Great Reviews from Satisfied Customers
To judge by the very happy 49 customers who actually came back to the site after buying the chandelier to review and give a five star rating to this product, it has to be a bargain. It has proved to be a continuing top seller as you can judge from the reviews that go back over the last 2 and a half years. So do take a look at that one!
Filed under discounts by on Apr 13th, 2010. Comment. 
I recently came across a very interesting article explaining the differences between CFLs (compact fluorescent lights) and LED lighting.
One of the main points made is that CFLs and fluorescent lights in general contain a small amount of mercury which of course is a well-known toxic substance. Furthermore as the lamps become hot so the mercury changes state from liquid into a gas, which is highly toxic, more so than in its liquid state. The EPA have recognised this and classified fluorescent lighting
typical CFl bulbs
bulbs and tubes as hazardous waste. So of course we should not just dispose of them as if they were non-toxic glass. For instance if they ended up in a landfill, the toxic mercury would just get added to the environment; or worse still if it were incinerated, the poisonous gas is released into our atmosphere.
The insidious thing behind this of course is that there is a huge drive from governmental and non-governmental agencies to use and change to CFLs for their energy efficiency as opposed to the original incandescent lighting. Fortunately – if they are properly recycled - apparently around 95% of that mercury can be prevented from entering our environment and possibly even recycled.
The article also discusses the dangers of using dimmers with CFLs; particularly if they start to buzz – the bulbs are almost certainly not suitable for use with dimmers.
eco-friendly LED bulb
Another point made is that CFLs apparently use a high frequency ultraviolet light wave, which is also a danger to our health and is cited as a cause for cancer, for instance.
Again the relatively low frequency flashing of using standard 50 – 60 hertz AC power can cause all sorts of health problems, headaches migraine and so on. This compares with the LED lighting system which realises that effect and have upped the flashing frequency from 60 to 120Hz. Now the Energy Star are even questioning this and want to increase the hundred and 20 Hz up to 150 Hz, though this is still in debate. you may like to download this PDF issued by Energy Star on Cleaning-up-&-disposal-of-CFLs as and when they break
Thanks to myefficientplanet.com for drawing our attention to this area.
Filed under eco lighting by on Mar 29th, 2010. Comment.
