Next year  the goal will be to increase the number people who switch to LED holiday lights.

The possible total number of households who could participate in 2007 was:

Los Gatos             11306

Monte Sereno        1236

Saratoga              10330

Why Convert to LED Holiday Lights?

Don’t loose money powering up all those holiday lights around your house.  We have a few stores around our three towns who carry LED Christmas Lights.  Get some now before they run out and help your city win the contest to get the most household switching to LED holiday lights.

Covert you household to LED holiday lights.  You will save money, time and energy.  You will also reduce the amount of CO2 gas that is produced to power those light.  Reducing CO2 gas emissions reduces global warming.

L.E.D. (Light Emitting Diode) lights use about one-tenth the electricity of super bright mini-lights, and as little as one-hundreth that of C7 incandescent lights. According to the U.S. Department of Energy, if all conventional incandescent Christmas lights in the U.S. were replaced with L.E.D. lights, annual energy savings would total 2 billion kilowatt hours (kWh) - enough to power 200,000 homes for a year.

This is data from the University of Florida showing how holiday lighting increases energy consumption.

What To Do With Old Holiday Lights?

The best thing do do with old holiday lights is to drop them off with a certified eWaste recycler.  Goodwill is one certified eWaste recycler