Green Christmas

Seattle's most festive street cuts the watts.

Illustration: Kelly J. Brownlee

1949:

The year residents of Candy Cane Lane, a roundabout on Park Road in Ravenna, started elaborate Christmas light displays

24:

Houses on the lane lit up each year

400:

Number of bulbs 23–year resident Susan Bryant uses to decorate her house each year, keeping them lit eight hours a day for three weeks

$757:

Cost to light her house for 23 Christmas seasons using traditional lightbulbs

99%:

The amount she’ll be reducing her energy use when she and her neighbors switch to LED lights for the first time this year

$748:

Amount she’ll save if she continues to use LEDs over the next 23 years

0:

The number of times she’ll likely have to replace those bulbs during that time