Here's My Great Green Idea!

My green idea is a small step aimed at imparting a green philosophy onto my five children. Instead of using the typical 7.5 watt night lights, we have brought our outdoor solar landscape lights indoors. I extended the wires from the outside solar cell, down through the roof, to the battery pack and LED lights inside. The lights are hidden in hanging cloth lanterns. These lanterns provide light to the stairway. Additional landscape lights are left sitting on the windowsill to charge during the day. The windowsill lights need no modification. At bedtime, the lights are moved to the night stands for a soft comforting glow of captured sunshine.
The savings from eliminating 7.5 watts are modest. It only amounts to a few dollars a year in operating costs. However, applied to the 40 million children under 10yrs living in the U.S. and it quickly adds up to $70 million a year. An energy equivalent of 620,000 tons of coal burned to produce the necessary electricity. Eliminate the coal and you also prevent 1.6 million tons of carbon dioxide from entering the atmosphere. That is not so modest. We must teach our children to think GREEN!