How to go green in home landscapes with solar lights

Designing home landscapes requires careful planning in order to reduce cost of maintenance and to minimize both household and environmental hazard in the long run.  Do you know the most cost effective way to design home landscapes?  I highly recommend to go green in home landscape design with the help of various types of solar lights. Solar lights - Merging Landscape lightings with decorative style Nowadays, solar lights have greatly evolved itself to the stage where it can serve as decorative items besides lighting.  You just need to plan for solar landscape lighting that can also blend into the specified theme, such as exotic garden landscape, modern looking landscape or simple home landscape. They are also lasting as they run on LED bulb and its body is made of materials that are both water and corrosion resistant.  It truly marries both style and flexibility. Solar lights - Free, natural and safe source of lightings In landscape design, it is crucial to ensure safety and also consider availability of power source for lighting.  Especially when kids are around, we must ensure there are zero hazards of exposing live wire.  Every solar light has its own portable power sources stored in rechargeable batteries.  To charge up these batteries, simply fully expose its solar cell or panel to sunlight and in turn is stored up 8 to 10 hours of solar power.  Hence there is no need to worry about finding wired power source and no live wire hazard.  What's more, solar power is the greener source of energy that does not contribute to air pollution and greenhouse effect traditionally present in coal/fossil generated power.  Since it is free and natural, we should learn to make full use of it just like plants do. How to go green for your home landscape Going green can simply start off in our home landscape.  Here are the various part of the home landscape you can consider: 1. Every house has a house number.  Instead of putting a plain house number that runs on dry battery or electrical power, you can choose various colourful solar house numbers from floral and butterfly style to decorative rock style. These style makes you house looks more welcoming and cheerful in the daytime.  At night solar house numbers will light up automatically when it detects darkness.  You can have a peace of mind finding your house easily at night especially when it is in a dimly lit area.      D5003 Solar House Number Light with Butterfly and Flowers $38.00  D5002 House Address Number Solar Rock (Large) $10.50 2. Every house should have fence lights that act as a "lighthouse" to every passing traveler at night.  You can go green with Solar Fence Lights that comes with different styles ranging from plastic copper to stone style to match specified colour and style of your fences or gates.  At night, it will self-illuminated when low light is detected.        PL244 Set of 2 Plastic Copper Square Fence Post  $38.00  PL503S Cyclinder Stone Fence Post Light $10.50  PLS216 Set of 2 Block Stone Fence Post Light $22.90 3. Pets always bring warm and comforting feeling to home owners.  With the life-size structure from various animal solar lights, both pet owners and non pet owners can enjoy this feeling. You can place each of these life-size dogs at the doorstep or gates holding a lantern as if it is always looking forward to see its owner come home.  Popular choices of dogs among home owners are Boxer Dogs, Dalmatian Dogs and Labrador Dogs. You can even also choose smaller animals such as Turtle solar lights that use a green turtle shell to light up at night.  Bird lovers will like to place few adorable robin birds solar lights with nests on branches that glow warmly at nights.  4. The walkway around the house may need pathway lights to brighten the path from gate to doorstep.  Solar Pathway Lights are especially good at this as it can self-illuminate when the surrounding turns dark.  In time of sudden black out at night, solar pathway lights are really life saviors that will lead you to the gates safely.  For more stylish solar pathway lights, you can consider solar deck pyramid lights that can be placed on any rise platform instead of ground.            B5186A Boxer Dog With Lantern lights $25.90  B5197 Dalmation Dog With Lantern Solar Lights $25.90  B5185A Yellow Labrador Dog With Lantern Solar Light $25.90  B5122 Turtle Solar Light $15.90  M0002 Robins Nesting On The Branch Solar Light $26.00 5. Home owner normally takes security seriously only after their house has been broken in. To give them a peace of mind, it is recommended to install a Motion sensor solar post lights near trees or other structures that intruders can use to sneak into the home compound.  These solar lights sense any passing object within 5 feet distance and brighten itself up.  No matter rain or shine, it is able to watchfully search your household for intruders.    PIR009 Motion Sensor Stainless Steel Pole Solar Light $9.90 6. Festive lightings brings joyous mood to every household during Christmas and New Year.  Switch to solar Christmas lights will make your festive lights safe and lasting.  These solar lights can be turned on as and when it is needed or let it lights up automatically when the surrounding is darkened.    X40 40 Amber LED X'mas String Light $27.50 Make home a greener place to live in for the sake of our Mother Earth With all initiatives for going green in home landscape easily available, it is time for every household to play a part to reduce the emission of greenhouse gas to our atmosphere.  Greenhouse gases are blamed to cause extreme weather conditions that affecting both America and Europe badly in past and current winter months. If we continue to increase greenhouse gas, it is no doubt that the extreme weather will become more frequent and spread to many other countries, thus causing tremendous loss of business and life.  A tiny effort from our part in every household can add up to a billion act of green that could reverse the current trend of greenhouse effect.  In turn less carbon compound can harm our fragile ozone layer and our atmosphere.  For the sake of our Mother Earth, start going green now!