How badly does your lighting stink?

Fluorescent bulbs that pierce your eyes and turn everyone’s skin green (and posters various discolorations)?

CFLs that take five minutes to burn full spectrum… and then over time fade in quality and lighting reliability?

Do you have a hodge podge of bulbs, a third of which are burnt out and no one bothers to change?

Is your office space crying out for help?  Does your home lighting make you want to go back to work?

Hi.  Let me introduce you to Cree.

Every month Cree has a “Cries for Help” contest where you can submit your photo of your space which much deserves an LED lighting makeover!  A winner is chosen for five Cree LR6 lights!

If your space needs some lighting love, check out the contest, submit your picture, and find out how Cree is leading the LED lighting revolution.

… check out the site anyhow!  You might get some chuckles and be horrified for those living and working in such crazily lit environments.

Also, consider the Orlando resort that switched to LED lights… and is now saving more than $100,000 annually from the switch! During these tough economic times (and when isn’t tough for a business?), every business needs to consider the investment into the LED revolution.  When nothing else speaks, sometimes money will.

Sustainably yours,  Ashley Sue

Amidst my wedding research, I have some awesome blogs in my RSS reader, including A.Mountain.Bride…

who happens to be running a contest to win a sweet little classic white Cosabella lingerie number!

I dig that the company has a bamboo eco-friendly line of naughties too.  Hello Bamboo Lowrider Thong.  Hehahe

My favorites are the Sex & The City Line by Cosabella though.  I cannot figure out for the life of me what is SATC about them (and trust me, I am a devout SATC junkie, and nothing at all in the slightest is ever at any point in any episode looks even kinda like these items… so, uh???), but regardless, the happy purpleness of this Miranda Chemise.  So cute and sassy without being juvenile.

So, check out A.Mountain.Bride’s Contest post for more information on how YOU can enter to win the sweet white Cosabella chemise, a $118 win that will make you feel oh-so-lovely under your own wedding garb (or whenever!).

Sustainably yours, Ashley Sue

Quick updates:

At the beginning of next week, I should be posting a contest to win a $50 Earth Fare gift card! Yay! Who doesn’t adore Earth Fare’s delectable, healthy, conscientious grocer selection and body care?! I know I have been thrilled to familiarize myself with Earth Fare! So keep an eye out for that NEXT WEEK!

Until then, for today (Friday, 26 June 2009), you can print out this coupon to visit your local Earth Fare and receive a FREE PRE-MADE DELI SANDWICH! I personally am excited for the coupon, so feel free to bump into me at Earth Fare!

Also, I attended the third annual Mountain Green Conference at Warren Wilson College ~ and I have a true plethora of information to share. From sealing your thermal envelope of your house, reducing air leaks and drafts, greener automechanics, building science, owls, local foods, beekeeping, the groundbreaking historic measures of WWC, NASCAR, and some generally nifty (albeit common sense) knowledge, posts are coming!

Bonus: posts of my Pisgah National Forest retreat will be coming too!

Lastly, HUGELY, I will spend part of this weekend and next week doing a MASSIVE overhaul of this website layout.  I have a lot of issues with the functionality and aesthetics of this theme, so I will be designing a CSS to make it better suited for (g)g and my purposes.  So get excited about that ~ I am!  This is LONG overdue change!

Hoorah!

Cheers to you all ~
See you at Earth Fare today!

Sustainably yours,
Ashley Sue