Eco Fact: Did you know that every day more solar energy falls on the Earth than the total amount of energy that the planet’s 5.9 billion inhabitants would consume in 27 years.Reduce your energy use: save yourself money in the long run and reduce your footprint on the planet. If everybody bought just one energy efficient lightbulb, we could shut down a power station.
We’ve been swapping out our existing bulbs at school for the new energy saving bulbs, and cutting our use of energy by 40%, but we completely forgot about the 9 spotlights we put up about five years ago. Each of them has been consuming about 50W and we’ve been burning them 8-10 hours a day! [...]
Eco-friendly lightbulbs are an energy efficient step in the right direction, but it could be that the bulb’s days are numbered. First we had light-emitting wallpaper, and now Saazs’ light-emitting glass plates. Using planilum technology, these plates are the world’s first active light-emitting glass. Incorporated into shelves and tables, the technology provides beautiful, understated lightin
A 26 year old Australian is heavily promoting green energy use throughout Australia through initiatives on his site Green Energy Watch.
What better way to get the message out and help reduce global warming than by giving away free energy saving light bulbs.
Green Energy Watch are providing 2 x Energy Saving Light bulbs for the first [...]
Green Energy Watch is giving away 10,000 Energy Saving Light Bulbs, to help save energy and reduce green house gas emissions. You can register for 2 Free Energy Saving Lightbulbs per household; they’ll also plant 1 tree with Carbon Smart to help absorb Co2.
Click here to register with Green Energy Watch, and receive 2 [...]
While listening to Z snore on our trek home from the drive-in movie I started re-pondering the light bulb riddle I posted earlier this evening. Turns out I was way off in my original assertion that it was an algebraic issue. It’s actually a science riddle, specifically having to do with heat. [...]
Picked up Z from school today and was immediately presented with a riddle that Ms. Falconer (her favorite teacher and mine) offered up to the class today. Anyone who solves the riddle will receive an in class reward. I believe I can figure it out, but we’re on our way out the door [...]
From independent.ie:
Ireland became the first country in the world to ban the traditional lightbulb.
Householders will be forced to switch to new long-life low-energy bulbs in 12 months’ time.
New legislation is being introduced banning the sale of the normal incandescent lightbulb from January, 2009.
As the normal lightbulb expires, householders will have to replace them with the [...]
I like the concept of this new lamp: LED Lights that are attached to a "tree". If you need light anywhere in your room, you can take it with you - just like picking a real fruit from a real tree.
(via ohgizmo, yankodesign)
The last time I wrote about CFL’s I didn’t have any.. ha ha.. I know bad, right? Well mostly I got the information from Wiki.. which is to say that it was more technical information but I have actually invested in these Squiggly little things that actually didn’t cost me that much money.
We went to [...]
I have preiously posted about the bid to ban the incandescent lightbulb to stop global warming. It appears as though this may have hit a snag though, you can read about it here.
At a time when fluorescent bulbs are gaining in popularity among global warming activists, politicians and consumers, Brandy Bridges discovered a dark side to energy-efficient lighting.
With Congress and state legislatures considering fluorescent-only legislation, the Prospect, Maine, resident is going against the grain - removing every compact fluorescent bulb from her home just months after installing them as part of a remodeling project.
The decision to take them down was prompted by safety concerns. Earlier, Bridges dropped a fluorescent bulb in her daughter’s room and it shattered, leaving potentially unsafe levels of mercury inside the rug.
As an electrician I know that a fluorescent bulb contains mercury and gasses. I also know that you are supposed to be very careful when handling these tubes. It
Home Depot is celebrating Earth Day today by giving away free compact fluorescent lightbulbs at most of their stores. These specific types of bulbs are proven to lower your energy costs and help Al Gore in saving the Earth from global warming. Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m off to plant some trees and save some baby bunnies!
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Australia will be the world's first country to ban incandescent lightbulbs in a bid to curb Greenhouse gas emissions, with the government saying on Tuesday they would be phased out within three years. Environment Minister Malcolm Turnbull said yellow incandescent bulbs, which have been in use virtually unchanged for 125 years, would be replaced by more efficient compact fluorescent bulbs by 2009. I hope the rest of the world will follow.If every household in the United States replaced one regular light bulb with an energy-saving model, we could reduce global warming pollution by more than 90 billion pounds over the life of the bulbs; the same as taking 6.3 million cars off the road.
